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MIND SCIENCE 

OF 

CHRIST JESUS 

A Treatise On Christian Psychology Showing The 
Power Of Suggestion And Eevealing The 
Secrets Of Mental And Spirit- 
ual Healing. 

By 

Charles Wesley McCrossan. 

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Published by 

The Sentinel Pub. Co. 
Santa Cruz, California, U. S. A. 



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Copyright 1913 

by 
Charles Wesley McCrossan 

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"Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full 
age, even those who by reason of use have their 
senses exercised to discern both good and 
evil." Heb. 5:14. 

"0 Eighteous Father, the world hath not known 
Thee: but I have known Thee." 

John 17:25. 

"As he thinketh in his heart, .so is he." 

Prov. 23:7. 

"Death and life are in the power of the tongue." 

Prov. 18:21. 

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall 
make you free. ' ' John 8 :32. 

"I am the Truth." John 14:6. 



"The mills of God grind slowly," true, 

In your life as well as mine: 
But hasten the grind, with surrendered will 
To the Spirit of God, who then will fill 
Your soul and body with joyous thrill 
Of His health and His peace, divine. 

C. W. McCrossan. 



PREVENTION BETTER THAN CURE. 

It was a noble thing that the Good Samaritan 
did when he bonnd np the wounds of the man 
that was robbed; but how much better it would 
have been had the Good Samaritan travelled with 
him in the first place, and by so doing have pre- 
vented both the robbery and the wounds. 

Too long has the church of Jesus Christ been 
content to play the part of the Good "Samaritan. 

The building of hospitals and asylums, the sav- 
ing of drunkards and harlots, the providing of 
missions and soup kitchens for the down and outs, 
is unquestionably good work; but with the infinite 
resources which the Almighty has placed to the 
credit of all true believers in the Lord Jesus 
Christ, the church should be able to a large degree 
at least, to prevent the sickness and insanity which 
make hospitals and asylums a necessity; to abolish 
the drunkard making factories and the harlot pro- 
ducing white slave traffic; and by actual demon- 
stration of the power of Jesus Christ, through the 
" signs" which "follow them that believe," con- 
vince and save the youth, in the purity of child- 
hood, and young manhood and womanhood. 



INTRODUCTION. 

With malice toward none, and love toward all, 
I present the truth as God has revealed it to me. 

This book is not written to make converts to any 
sect ; but to make known to all people everywhere, 
some of the marvellous secrets of Christian 
Psychology. 

The teachings herein contained are in harmony 
with the Bible, with scientific investigations and 
with every day practical experience. 

No man needs so much to realize these truths, 
as does the true minister of Jesus Christ. 

Multitudes of people, though earnestly desiring 
to know the real truth of God, are so dissatisfied 
with the sermons which they hear when they at- 
tend regular church services, that they refuse to 
identify themselves with any cf the orthodox de- 
ne nr nations. 

Many preachers, being unspiritual and unscrip- 
tnral, fail utterly to provide spiritual nourishment 
for those who wait upon their ministry. 

In many communities such preachers are looked 
upon as financial burdens. 

The true minister of Jesus Christ is the kind of 
a burden that wings are to a bird. 

Thousands of intelligent members of orthodox 
denominations are, every year, going over to 
Christian Science; because they see demonstrated 
in the lives of Christian Scientists, a certain power 
for good which is lacking in the majority of mod- 
ern orthodox churches. 



The orthodox ministry must face this issue 
fairly and squarely; and not take cowardly refuge 
in ridicule. The hundreds of thousands of mem- 
bers of orthodox churches, who are earnestly seek- 
ing to know the truth in regard to healing, are not 
going to be satisfied with hearing- the ministry 
declare that " Christian Scientists are a pack of 
fools;" whilst among the Christian Scientists 
themselves, they see daily and hourly demonstra- 
tions of a great power for good, which heals many 
bodies and sweetens many dispositions, of those 
who surrender themselves to it. 

The thousands of intelligent orthodox church 
members who have already left the churches and 
gone over to Christian Science, have done so be- 
cause they realized that the unspiritual unscrip- 
tural preachers, who unfortunately fill so many 
pulpits of the orthodox churches, are not pro- 
claiming nor demonstrating the real truth of 
God; and not understanding the secrets of Chris- 
tian psychology, they have jumped to the false 
conclusion that Christian Science must be and 
indeed is, the very truth of God. 

No one who knows the facts doubts for one 
moment that there is power in the teachings of so- 
called "Christian Science," to heal many bodies 
and sweeten many dispositions; but I know, and 
I hereinafter absolutely prove, that the power of 
Christian Science is the power of human mental- 
ity only, and not the power of God. 

I beg of my readers not to be narrow-minded, 
but to deal fairly with me, by studiously reading 
my book; for as God is my witness, I have written 
this book for the sole purpose of making known 



the truth of Grod to all truth seekers, irrespective 
of sect or creed. Life is too short and eternity too 
real, to waste time and energy debating any doc- 
trine for the sake of argument, or for the sake of 
making converts to any sect. 

Hundreds of millions of members of the human 
race, are living lives of suffering and despair, 
who would be saved, both physically and spirit- 
ually, if all the people who profess to believe in 
Jesus Christ were Christians in fact; demonstrat- 
ing daily and hourly the truth of God. 

The Author. 



CONTENTS 



CHAPTER PAGE 

I. What is Man? 10 

II. What is God?. 11 

III. The Conscious Realm of the Mind 

of Man 13 

IV. The Subconscious Realm of the 
Mind of Man 17 

V. The Superconscious Realm of the 
Mind of Man 49 

VI. Christ Jesus, the Conscious Realm 

of the Mind of God 58 

VII. The Father, the Subsconscious 
Realm of the Mind of God 86 

VIII. The Holy Spirit, the Supercon- 
scious Realm of the Mind of God . 97 

IX. The Origin of Evil, Sin, Disease 

and Death 107 

X. The Power of Suggestion 126 

XL Mental Healing 144 

XII. Spiritual Healing 173 



The Premise upon which this book is written is: 

The Bible is the inspired Word of the living 
God; and the utterances of Jesus Christ and His 
prophets and apostles recorded therein, consti- 
tute the final decisions of the supreme court of 
the universe, in regard to religious truth. 



Chapter I. 

WHAT IS MAN I 

Each human being is one mind, indwelling a 
hnman body; and each mind is divided into three 
realms; the Conscious, the Subconscious, and the 
Superconscious. 

These are not three minds, but three realms of 
one mind. These are not three personalities, but 
three divisions of the one personality. 

Each realm has its separate and distinct func- 
tions. 

The Conscious Realm of the human mind, is that 
division in which reason, judgment, will and the 
five senses, have their seat. 

The Subconscious Realm of the human mind, 
is that division which controls the circulation of 
the blood, digestion, respiration and all involun- 
tary muscular movements ; and in which intuition, 
memory, affection, emotion, conscience, belief, 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 11 

imagination, inspiration and genius, have their 
seat. 

The Superconscious Realm of the human mind 
is the only division which has a capacity for God. 



Chapter II. 
WHAT IS GOD? 

"God created man in His own image." Gen. 
1:27. 

Man, as he came from his Creator, was the 
counterpart of God; and God, therefore, is the 
counterpart of man, as man was when he came 
from his Creator. 

Man, when he came from his Creator, was one 
mind, divided into three realms; the Conscious, 
the Subconscious and the Superconscious; and 
God, therefore, is one mind, divided into three 
realms; the Conscious, the Subconscious and the 
Superconscious. 

The male and female in man, when first created, 
were complete in one body — the father-mother 
man. "In the day that God created man ? in the 
likeness of God made He him; male and female 
created He them; and called their name Adam, in 
the day when they were created." Gen. 5:1, 2. 

In the eternity before "time" was, the one 
Mind, God, consisted of two realms: the Father, 
the subconscious realm; and the Holy Spirit, the 
superconscious realm. 



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These two realms made complete the eternal, 
invisible, Father-Mother God. 

The Father-Mother God begat Christ, the 
"only begotten Son," and the two realm mind 
was made to embrace three realms. 

Had a separate and distinct God mind been im- 
parted to Christ, there wonld have been two Gods, 
instead of one. In the infinite wisdom of the 
Father-Mother God, it was decided not to give a 
separate and distinct God mind to the only be- 
gotten Son, Christ, bnt rather to impart to Him 
certain functions of the two realm God mind; 
thereby creating a separate and distinct realm; 
cansing the two realm Mind to thereafter embrace 
three realms. 

Since Christ was begotten, the one Mind, God, 
has been divided into three realms: Christ, the 
conscious realm; the Father, the subconscious 
realm; and the Holy Spirit, the superconscious 
realm. 

"These three are one." I John 5:7. They are 
not three minds, but three realms of the one mind. 
These are not three personalities, but three divi- 
sions of the one personality. 

Christ, the conscious realm, was begotten before 
any other being existed, apart from the eternal, 
invisible, Father-Mother God; and before any- 
thing material in the universe had been created. 
The Father-Mother God, the subconscious and 
superconscious realms of the one Mind, God, al- 
ways has been and always will be invisible. 

Christ, the conscious realm of the mind of God, 



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was begotten in the visible form of God; and has 
at all times since been visible; and always will be 
visible. 

The subconscious and supereonscious" realms of 
the mind of God, have spoken all their words and 
done all their works through the conscious realm: 
therefore all the knowledge that angels, or men, 
or other, beings throughout the universe, have 
concerning God, has been revealed through the 
words and works of Christ, the conscious and only 
visible and knowable realm of the mind of God. 



Chapter III. 

» 

THE CONSCIOUS REALM OF THE MIND OF 

MAN. 

The conscious realm is that division of the mind 
of man in which reason, judgment, will and the 
five senses, have their seat. 

During prenatal and early childhood days, the 
influences which bear upon the mind are external; 
and the mind influenced is by no means respon- 
sible, whether the influences be for good or evil. 

After accountability is reached; that is, when 
the reason is able intelligently to lay before the 
judgment the evidence in each case, and the judg- 
ment is able clearly to decide what is right and 
what is wrong, after duly considering the evi- 
dence; the will of the conscious realm becomes 
responsible for every voluntary act, and is ap- 



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proved or condemned by conscience according to 
its acts. 

Dictionaries give the meaning of the word ' t con- 
science" as, "The moral sense which determines 
right and wrong;" bnt that is erroneous. 

Every normal human being has reason and judg- 
ment; by the proper use of which he is capable 
of deciding what is right and what is wrong. If 
the will determines to do an act, which the judg- 
ment has decided it is right to do, conscience 
approves the act: but if the will determines to do 
an act, which the judgment has decided it is wrong 
to do, conscience condemns the act. 

Though an act may in fact be wrong to do, con- 
science approves the doing of it so long as the 
judgment considers the act right: and though an 
act may in fact be right to do, conscience con- 
demns the doing of it so long as the judgment 
considers the act wrong. 

It is the intention of the will to do right or 
wrong, which establishes the innocence or guilt 
of the will. 

Every decision is made by the judgment of the 
conscious realm; and every voluntary act is per- 
formed under the ruling of the will of the con- 
scious realm. 

The eternal destiny of each human being, after 
accountability is reached, is determined by the 
will of each. Until accountability is reached, each 
human being rests in the will of God; and His 
Word distinctly states that He is "not willing 
that any should perish." 2 Pet. 3:9. Christ 



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Jesus, the conscious realm of the mind of God, set 
His seal to this declaration when He said, * ' Suffer 
little children to come unto Me, and forbid them 
not: for of such is the Kingdom of God." Luke 
18:16. 

The conscious realm of the human mind is the 
court of last appeal, from the day accountability 
is reached, so long as reason remains, until the 
day of death. 

For that which a human being inherits, he is 
not responsible until accountability is reached: 
but for that which the will determines, in regard 
to inherited tendencies, the human being is re- 
sponsible. 

Each normal human being has the power within 
himself to overcome every inherited tendency; 
and after accountability is reached, has the will 
to determine, very largely, what shall be his en- 
vironment. If, through peculiar circumstances, 
some are unable to determine their environment, 
they still have the power within themselves, if 
properly directed and controlled, to overcome 
every evil influence. 

Every thought, word, look and act of the con- 
scious realm, has its part in the moulding of the 
subconscious realm. As the farmer must meet the 
demands of natural laws, before he can realize a 
harvest; so the human mind, must meet the de- 
mands of spiritual laws, before it can realize God. 
The will of the conscious realm determines wheth- 
er or not the demands of spiritual laws will be 
met. 



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Heredity, environment and education are three 
of the prime factors in the moulding of human 
character. Education is, to a large degree, the 
result of the combined influences of thoughts, 
words, looks and acts of the conscious realm, upon 
the subconscious realm. 

The conscious realm of the human mind may 
well be called artificial or unreal; in that its 
thoughts, words, looks and acts are frequently 
determined upon, not because judgment has de- 
cided they are wise or right, but because other 
human beings are doing the same things. Changes 
in fashions of wearing apparel are generally made 
for this reason only. Books are read, tours are 
made, houses are purchased and furnished accord- 
ing to certain ideas; and fads of all kinds are 
freely indulged; because others are doing or have 
done the same things. 

Every thought, word, look and act of the con- 
scious realm, whether artificial or otherwise, has 
its part in the moulding of the subconscious realm. 



Chapter IV. 

THE SUBCONSCIOUS BEALM OF THE MIND 
OF MAN. 

The subconscious realm is that division of the 
mind of man which controls the circulation of the 
blood, digestion, respiration and all involuntary 
muscular movements; and in which intuition, 
memory, affection, emotion, conscience, belief, 
imagination, inspiration and genius, have their 
seat. 

The forces of the subconscious realm are little 
understood and appreciated by the average man; 
although they constitute the greatest forces of the 
mind. The latent power of the subconscious 
realm of the average mind, if properly directed 
and controlled, is more than sufficient for the ac- 
complishing of marvellous achievements. 

Every normal human being has an almost inex- 
haustible reservoir of power in the subconscious 
realm of his mind. Unaided, undirected and un- 
controlled, the subconscious realms in the minds 
of untold millions, have carried on the work of 



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circulating the blood, digesting the food, purify- 
ing the lungs, and exercising the muscles, in spite 
of the mistakes of the conscious realms. 

The vast majority of men have no realization 
of their greater selves. 

They do practically all of their thinking with 
the conscious realms of their minds : and since the 
conscious realms are largely artificial and unreal, 
and extremely limited in their thought capacity, 
their lives are like their conscious thoughts, arti- 
ficial, unreal, and extremely limited. 

The conscious realm can think of but few things 
at one time; whereas, the subconscious realm has 
absolute perfect memory at all times, of every 
impression that has ever been made upon it; 
whether through the ears, the eyes, the other 
senses, or thought vibrations from any source. 

The subconscious realm is suggestible; and is 
devoid of reason, judgment and will; therefore 
rejects no suggestion, but receives every sugges- 
tion at face value; whether it be true or false. If 
it were not for the reason, judgment and will of 
the conscious realm, the mind of man would be 
controlled absolutely by suggestion. The subcon- 
scious realm is utterly powerless to resist the auto- 
suggestions of the conscious realm. Autosugges- 
tions are ineffective, therefore, only when the 
conscious realm counteracts its own suggestions; 
or when they are counteracted by more emphatic 
suggestions of another mind. 

A human being whose reason is unseated before 



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accountability is reached is not responsible; and 
rests in the will of God. 

Every normal human being is what he is, be- 
cause of the decisions of his own will. Every 
normal human being has the power in himself to 
mould himself. The will of the conscious realm is 
absolute. 

Millions of men are failures, because of the evil 
autosuggestions which they have permitted the 
conscious realms of their minds to give to the 
subconscious realms. 

Making any kind of suggestion to one's self, is 
autosuggestion. 

If a man autosuggests to the subconscious realm 
of his mind, that he is a fool and a failure, how 
can he in the nature of things ever expect to be 
anything but a fool and a failure? Every such 
suggestion is accepted and believed by the sub- 
conscious realm; and it is what the subconscious 
realm believes, tliat is the standard of the man. 
A man actually is, what he makes the subcon- 
scious realm of his mind believe he is. The sub- 
conscious realm is that part of a man's mind, 
which in the Bible is referred to as "The heart." 
"As he thinketh in his heart, so is he." 

This is not an opinion, but an inviolable law of 
God; an absolute statement of fact. The subcon- 
scious realm has power within itself to fashion 
the man according to its own beliefs. 

The subconscious realm having neither reason 
nor judgment, has no means of knowing whether a 
statement made to it is reasonable or unreason- 



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able, true or false, except through the reason and 
judgment of the conscious realm: and has no 
power to reject any suggestion, reasonable or un- 
reasonable, true or false, except through the will 
of the conscious realm. 

The functions of each realm are separate and 
distinct. The conscious realm is the seat of rea- 
son, judgment, will and the ftve senses; and these 
are not to be found in the subconscious or super- 
conscious realms. The subconscious realm con- 
trols the circulation of the blood, digestion, res- 
piration, involuntary muscular movements, and is 
the seat of intuition, memory, affection, emotion, 
conscience, belief, imagination, inspiration alnd 
genius; and these are not to be found in the con- 
scious or superconscious realms. For instance, 
the conscious realm can love only through the 
love of the subconscious realm; and the subcon- 
scious realm can will only through the will of the 
conscious realm. Each realm is dependent upon 
the other realms, for the functions of the other 
realms. 

When men think only with the conscious realms, 
their thoughts are limited to the functions of the 
conscious realm; but when they expand their 
thinking to embrace the subconscious realms, their 
thought capacity is enlarged to the extent of the 
functions of the subconscious realm. 

Men have permitted the subconscious realms of 
their minds to lie practically dormant ever since 
the beginning of the human race ; and the wonder 
is that they can be resuscitated. Muscles of the 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 21 

body which are seldom used, become soft and 
flabby, and refuse to respond quickly even in time 
of need. The subconscious realm must be prop- 
erly exercised and trained before it will respond 
satisfactorily. Being in a weakened condition by 
enforced idleness, it cannot be expected to respond 
powerfully under first instructions. 

The subconscious realm is the great storehouse 
of the mind. In it is all the knowledge which has 
been gleaned through the years, by the study of 
the conscious realm. If properly directed and 
controlled, the subconscious realm can be made 
to give out all the knowledge which has been 
stored within it; at the time, and in the manner, 
that the will of the conscious realm may direct. 

The memory, being one of the functions of the 
subconscious realm, is subject to control through 
suggestion and autosuggestion, and can be made 
to remember, or to cease to remember, at will. If 
the memory of some great grief, or disaster, or 
mistake, or sin, is constantly depressing one and 
interfering with the enjoyment of life, the sub- 
conscious realm can be instructed to cease to re- 
call such an event; and it will obey the instruc- 
tion. " Forgetting those things which are behind, 
and reaching forth unto the things which are be- 
fore, I press toward the mark for the prize of the 
high calling of God in Christ Jesus." Phil. 3:13, 
14. It is also clear that the will of God exercises 
control over the function of memory in the mind 
of God, for He declares, "I will be merciful to 
their unrighteousness, and their sins and their 



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iniquities will I remember no more." Heb. 8:12. 
Students who learn bow to control the subcon- 
scious realms of their minds, are delivered from 
nervousness and selfconsciousness, which cause 
lack of memory at critical moments, such as ex- 
aminations. 

If the conscious realm deposits treasures of 
thought in the subconscious realm, and then buries 
them under heaps of rubbish, it is not to be ex- 
pected that they shall be found the instant they 
are wanted, at a time of crisis. It always takes 
time to find things, no matter how valuable they 
may be, if they have been carelessly stored away; 
and covered with a lot of trash. Treasures of 
thought, after they have been stored away, should 
be reviewed as frequently as possible. 

The subconscious realm cannot give out more 
than has been stored within it. If the thought 
food, which the conscious realm has fed to the 
subconscious realm, has been trash, then the pre- 
ponderance of the product of the subconscious 
realm will be trash. The subconscious realm has 
stored within it, all that it has received through 
the study of the conscious realm, through 
its own intuitions, through its contact with 
other minds, and through thought vibra- 
tions. If it has been given opportunities to 
absorb wisdom through mingling with men of cul- 
ture and education, it may have by absorption 
obtained enough intelligence to enable it to great- 
ly improve upon the work of the conscious realm. 
If the subconscious realm has been starved 



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through lack of good reading, or good thought 
food, it probably cannot be made to produce liter- 
ature of real worth. 

A man's library should be a striking index to 
his character. Most libraries need thinning out, 
like Gideon's army. God accomplished more with 
three hundred men of the right sort, than 
He could have accomplished with the orig- 
inal thirty two thousand men. Any stu- 
dent is better equipped with one dozen books of 
the right kind, than with a thousand books of the 
wrong kind. Library shelves should not be filled 
with popular novels, but with books which abound 
in thoughts which a keen thinking man of spirit- 
ual discernment would be desirous of storing 
away in the subconscious realm of his mind for 
future helpfulness. A poorly written book im- 
presses upon the subconscious realm, a poor style 
of writing; whereas a masterful book carries with 
it the impression of a masterful style of writing. 
One cannot afford to be careless even along one 
line. The influence of trashy reading cannot fail 
to manifest itself in one's work. The subcon- 
scious realm absorbs impressions continually. 
The power of suggestion is so tremendous that it 
is impossible even to look upon a picture without 
being influenced to a considerable degree. The 
reading of the details of crime in one newspaper, 
effects one's thoughts detrimentally for weeks. 
There are so many thousands of worthy and help- 
ful books, that it is almost criminal to waste prec- 
ious time in reading trash. Subscribe only for 



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good papers and read only helpful books. 

Every thought, word, look and act of the con- 
scious realm, has its influence upon the subcon- 
scious realm; and every such influence reacts 
upon the body, building it up or breaking it down, 
to that degree. Worry, anger, jealousy, malice, 
envy, bitterness, etc, act as poisons of a greater 
or lesser intensity, upon the organs of the body; 
and interfere with the functions of the same. 
Every good thought, or uplifting emotion, manu- 
factures energy: whilst every evil thought, or de- 
grading emotion, destroys energy. The body and 
mind react one upon the other. Good food, fre- 
quent bathing, fresh air and sunshine, all have 
helpful influences upon mind conditions. 

The first book which should be placed in every 
library, is the Bible. The greatest masterpieces 
of literature, were written by men who were 
familiar with the Bible. In a christian nation, a 
man cannot honestly claim to be well educated, 
until he has familiarized himself with the Bible. 
Every book should be tested by its relation to 
truth. When I say " truth' ' I mean Christ Jesus, 
the conscious realm of the mind of God, who alone 
is the truth. Any book which causes its readers 
to doubt the absolute veracity of Christ Jesus, 
should have no place in the library of a right 
thinking man. 

No saner words were ever uttered by human 
lips, than those which Daniel Webster spake, when 
he said, "If we abide by the principles taught in 
the Bible, we shall go on prospering and to pros- 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 25 

per: but if we and our posterity, neglect its in- 
structions and authority, no man can tell how 
sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us; and 
bury all our glory in profound obscurity." 

What a man reads has not only a tremendous 
influence in forming his character, but also in de- 
termining the quality of his work. The majority 
of people spend their lives in imitating and envy- 
ing the originalities of other people; while hidden 
away within the subconscious realms of their own 
minds, unknown and unsuspected, are powers of 
originalities far surpassing in real worth, the 
products of the minds of those whom they envy. 

This phenomenon is witnessed every time a 
"best seller" is published. Ten thousand imita- 
tors immediately set to work to produce stories 
along the same line. The magazine editors, no 
better than the imitative writers, shape the poli- 
cies of their magazines by the policies of other 
magazines; until one would think the majority of 
the magazines were edited by the same man, and 
contributed to by the same unoriginal twaddle 
writers. So long as a writer remains satisfied to 
imitate the writings of others, he need not ex- 
pect to produce meritorious work. 

No man can work subconsciously unless his 
thoughts are harmonious. Anger, or evil thoughts 
of any nature, retained in the conscious realm, 
make inspiration, or expression of genius, impos- 
sible. 

Inspiration and genius have their seat in the 
subconscious realm; therefore, no matter how 



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good has been the work done by any man working 
consciously, he has the power within the subcon- 
scious realm of his mind, to produce that which 
will make the work of the conscious realm look 
crude. 

This is not only true in literature, but in every 
line. The musician, singer, sculptor, poet, paint- 
er, orator, preacher, novelist, can all improve 
greatly upon the best work of the conscious 
realms of their minds, by learning to work sub- 
consciously. 

If an orator, in the midst of an eloquent per- 
oration, is made self conscious, aware of his hands 
and feet, and of the manner in which he is making 
his gestures, he instantly loses all power to sway 
his audience. 

If an elocutionist be made selfconscious, while 
in the act of reciting, he will most probably forget 
even the words of his piece. 

If an artist be made selfconscious, by some un- 
congenial person looking over his shoulder while 
he paints, he instantly loses all inspiration; and 
if he continues under the circumstances, his 
strokes will be mechanical. It is only by painting 
subconsciously that an artist can depict the feel- 
ings of his soul; and fix upon the canvas the fleet- 
ing lights and shadows which make real pictures. 

The Spaniard Goya was a great painter even 
after he became insane. Birge Harrison, the 
artist, referring to the demented Goya, writes, 
"Naturally the character of his subjects was 
effected by his loss of mental control. They be- 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 27 

came ghastly and often incoherent, bnt the funda- 
mental temperamental quality of his art remained 
great to the end. The temperamental man, dwell- 
ing deep down below the surface, had not been 
effected by the storm which played havoc with 
the surface nature. We are therefore forced irre- 
sistibly to the conclusion that temperament re- 
sides in the emotional, in other words, in the sub- 
conscious nature of man." 

The only art critics who are worthy the name, 
are those who learn to judge pictures subcon- 
sciously. Mechanical work, which is the product 
of the conscious realm, can be justly criticised by 
the conscious realm of the mind of the critic: but 
subconscious work, which is the product of the 
subconscious realm, cannot be justly criticised by 
a critic who has failed to learn to judge subcon- 
sciously. Masterpieces are painted only subcon- 
sciously. 

The conscious realm can think of very few 
things at one time; but the subconscious realm is 
the seat of perfect memory at all times. If, when 
time of crisis comes, the student has taught him- 
self to work subconsciously, then selfconscious- 
ness, which causes nervousness, forgetfulness and 
awkwardness, will be an unknown quantity. 

One has never mastered a foreign language until 
he speaks it subconsciously. So long as a French- 
man, who is endeavoring to master the English 
language, thinks his thoughts first in French, and 
then translates them into English, just so long 
will he speak English in a lame and halting man- 



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ner; but when his knowledge of the language 
becomes such that he thinks his thoughts in En- 
glish, then he will speak the language freely. 

It is the intuition of the subconscious realm 
which causes one to be instantly drawn to or re- 
pelled by, a complete stranger. If instead cf 
ignoring such intuitive impressions, we followed 
them, we would be saved from many of the treach- 
erous friendships of life. People who make little 
or no impression upon us, when we first meet 
them, generally upon closer acquaintance prove 
to be largely negative quantities. People who 
have it in them to accomplish great things, wheth- 
er for good or evil, radiate their personal influ- 
ence. Subconscious first impressions are the only 
impressions to trust. Second impressions are 
untrustworthy; because they are partly the result 
of the reason of the conscious realm and are ef- 
fected by appearances. The conscious realm is 
able to arrive at conclusions only through reason; 
and seldom, if ever, are all the facts relating to 
another individual made known to one's reason. 

Dreams are in the realm of the subconscious; 
and are many times the result of unknown sug- 
gestions or influences. Dreams of almost any 
nature can be induced by autosuggestion. Many 
people, by concentrated thoughts and autosugges- 
tions, have induced dreams which they claimed 
were visions from God. All suggested and longed 
for visions, are doubtless the product of the sug- 
gestions and longings ; having been subconsciously 
produced by autosuggestion. Dreams which come 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 29 

unsought, and which are strictly in accord with 
the teachings of Christ Jesus, may have their 
origin in the superconscions realm of the mind, 
and be influenced by the Spirit of God ; bnt dreams 
whose teachings are antagonistic to the teachings 
of Christ Jesus, are the product only of the sub- 
conscious realm. God cannot contradict Himself! 
Christ Jesus is the conscious realm of the mind 
of God; therefore, anything which is antagonistic 
to His teachings, is not of God. 

God inspires men only through the supercon- 
scious realm of the mind, after the superconscious 
realm has experienced the new birth, having been 
fertilized and eternalized through the operation 
of the Spirit of God. It is an indisputable fact, 
in the light of the teaching of the Word of God, 
that the superconscious realm lies dormant in 
every man until he believes in the deity of Christ 
Jesus. Moreover, God never, under any circum- 
stances, permits any man to add to or take from 
His own Word; or to make light of the blood of 
Christ Jesus, as the only propitiation for sin. Put 
no faith, therefore, in any dream, or so called 
revelation, which in the slightest degree is antago- 
nistic to the teachings of Christ Jesus. 

Children are peculiarly amenable to suggestion. 
The whipping of little children is often barbarous, 
brutal and cowardly; and is many times unneces- 
sary. Many parents lose the love and confidence 
of their little ones by whipping. A parent who 
when angry whips a little child, is a coward. Any 



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bad habit in a child can be cnred by loving, fre- 
quent, emphatic suggestions. 

Dull or backward children are greatly harmed 
by adverse criticisms, made in their presence, 
especially when made in the form of suggestion; 
such as, "You are so slow and stupid, you never 
will amount to anything. ' ' If the child pays par- 
ticular heed to such an utterance, it becomes a 
positive instruction to the subconscious realm of 
his mind; and the mind of the child will do its 
utmost to obey the instruction. One such criti- 
cism, therefore, lodged in the subconscious realm 
of a child 's mind, will cause the forces of the mind 
to be concentrated toward the development of 
slowness and stupidity. 

Dull or backward children need to be encour- 
aged with all helpful suggestions possible; such 
as, "Don't worry! you will soon be as bright a 
scholar as "any other boy or girl in the school. ' ' 
Such a suggestion lodged in the subconscious 
realm of a child's mind, will rouse the dormant 
forces of the subconscious realm; and the child 
will indeed soon become one of the brightest schol- 
ars in the school. Many of the most intellectual 
men this world has ever known, were dull and 
backward in the early days of their childhood. 

If a child is having hard work mastering any 
particular branch of study, let the parents make 
frequent helpful suggestions, such as, "It seems 
hard now, but in a little while you will thoroughly 
understand it. ' ' Even one who has no knowledge 
whatever of the particular branch of study, can 



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greatly aid the student by making encouraging 
suggestions. Students should be taught to auto- 
suggest complete mastery of the various subjects; 
and to never, under any circumstances, permit 
themselves to admit or suggest failure to them- 
selves. 

If a student suggests to himself, "I can't mas- 
ter this subject," it immediately becomes a psy- 
chological impossibility for him to master it. All 
the study which he puts upon the subject, follow- 
ing such an emphatic suggestion of failure, will 
be of no avail; until he denies and uproots his 
autosuggestion of failure, and replaces it with a 
more determined and emphatic autosuggestion of 
success; such as, "I can master this subject; and 
I Will master it soon." 

The best time for suggestion and autosugges- 
tion, is just before sleeping and just after awak- 
ing. Suggestions delivered to the subconscious 
realm of the mind just before sleeping, work unin- 
terruptedly all night long; for the subconscious 
realm never sleeps. For this reason, if for no 
higher one, the last thoughts at night should 
never be sinful, unkind, malicious nor depressing. 
Every thought effects the body for good or evil. 
"Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also 
reap," (Gal. 6:7) is literally true of every thought 
which a man permits his mind to think. Especi- 
ally is this true just before sleeping. If the last 
thoughts are of anger or revenge, the poison of 
such thoughts works in the body throughout the 
entire night, destroying energy. If the last 



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thoughts are of kindness and peace; the health 
producing power of them is at work in the body 
throughout the entire night; manufacturing en- 
ergy. These stupendous facts make clear the 
benefit of prayer. Nothing banishes sinful 
thoughts, and replaces them with thoughts of 
peace and purity, so effectually as prayer to God 
the Father, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. 
The Word of God is clear in its teaching along 
this line. ' l Commit thy works unto the Lord, and 
thy thoughts shall be established. ' ' Pr. 16:3. 
"Keep thy heart (literally the principal realm of 
the mind, where the affections have their seat ; the 
subconscious realm) with all diligence; for out 
of it are the issues of life." Pr. 4:23. "Under- 
standing is a well-spring of life, unto him that 
hath it." Pr. 16:22. "Delight thyself also in the 
Lord; and He shall give thee the desires of thine 
heart." Ps. 37:4. 

When making suggestions or autosuggestions, 
always be clear and emphatic. Take nothing for 
granted. Eemember the subconscious realm is 
devoid of reason and judgment; and accepts your 
statements at face value. When autosuggesting, 
talk to yourself as if talking to another; only let 
your thoughts be directed toward your own brain. 
Word your instructions in the simplest language 
possible. Shut out all noises; by placing the fing- 
ers in the ears if need be; and concentrate your 
thoughts upon your suggestion. Concentration of 
thought and clearness of utterance, are absolutely 
essential to successful autosuggestion. 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 33 

Fear can be mastered by autosuggestion. Who 
has not proven by personal experience, the truth- 
fulness of the Bible statement, "Fear hath tor- 
ment." I John 4:18. Fear throws open the door 
to one 's inner self, and urges his boon companions 
Disaster, Disease and Death, to enter and make 
merry at one's expense. By properly directed 
autosuggestions the subconscious realm of the 
mind can be made to drive out Fear, and put 
Confidence in his place. Confidence brings with 
him his faithful companions Happiness, Hope and 
Health, and they make merry to one's profit. 

Thousands of people are insane today, through 
neither heredity nor accidents, but as the direct 
result of evil autosuggestions of grief, sickness, 
failure, malice, or such like. These evil autosug- 
gestions frequently given, have finally become 
fixed ideas in the subconscious realms of their 
minds; and they are now beyond self help. They 
are just as suggestible today, as they ever were; 
but the victims themselves are beyond the point 
where they have reason or judgment sufficient to 
frame and affirm autosuggestions for their own 
deliverance. People who have been made insane 
by evil suggestions or autosuggestions, are in no 
wise amenable to medical treatment. The fixed 
ideas which brought insanity upon them can only 
be overcome by the suggestions of others, given 
frequently, clearly and emphatically, in such a 
manner as to liberate the subconscious realms of 
the victims' minds from the fixed ideas. To af- 
firm the delusions of the insane, is but to intensify 



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and strengthen the fixed ideas of evil; and make 
their recovery more hopeless. 

Human love has its seat in the subconscious 
realm of the mind. Love at first sight is subcon- 
scious. That which calculates and schemes for 
social advantage, or personal aggrandizement, is 
not love. Many a life has been ruined through 
lack of knowledge of how to instruct the subcon- 
scious realm, in regard to love. Every function 
of the subconscious realm is controllable by sug- 
gestion and autosuggestion. Overwhelming in- 
fatuations can be controlled and overcome just 
the same as other emotions, such as fear; by auto- 
suggestion. 

The fact that a man falls in love with a woman 
at first sight, subconsciously, is no proof that it 
is the will of God that he should marry that par- 
ticular woman. This is clear in the fact that 
several men have been known to fall in love at 
first sight with the same woman. 

Belief is one of the functions of the subcon- 
scious realm. "With the heart (subconscious 
realm of the mind) man believeth unto righteous- 
ness; and with the mouth (conscious realm) con- 
fession is made unto salvation." Eom 10:10. 
Belief is controllable. No man is an unbeliever 
in Christ Jesus, the conscious realm of the mind 
of God, because of superior intellectuality. Men 
disbelieve in the deity of Christ Jesus only be- 
cause they are the victims of fixed ideas resulting 
from evil suggestions and autosuggestions. 

All men naturally believe in a Supreme Being. 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 35 

Any other belief is utterly irrational. There can- 
not be a thought without a mind to think the 
thought; there cannot be a plan without a plan- 
ner, a design without a designer, or a creation 
without a creator. However, man can by sugges- 
tions and autosuggestions make himself believe 
almost anything. 

A man who is strong in the christian faith, can, 
by frequent and emphatic autosuggestions of un- 
belief, soon cause himself to doubt; or any infidel 
by frequent and emphatic autosuggestions of be- 
lief, can soon cause himself to believe. 

God knows that man can make himself believe 
whatever he wills to believe, and therefore holds 
every man responsible for what he believes. 

I have many times heard unbelievers say, "I'd 
like to believe in Jesus Christ, but I can 't. ' ' Such 
a statement is psychologically untrue. 

The subconscious realm of the human mind, 
being devoid of reason and judgment, accepts 
every suggestion made to it at face value; whether 
the suggestion be true or false. If a man sug- 
gests to the subconscious realm of his mind, "I 
can't believe in Jesus Christ, " he thereby makes 
it impossible for the subconscious realm to be- 
lieve : but if he suggests to the subconscious realm 
of his mind, "I can and I will believe in Jesus 
Christ," he immediately makes it possible for the 
subconscious realm to believe. 

The suggestion, "I can and I will believe in 
Jesus Christ, as my personal Saviour, ' ' given fre- 
quently and emphatically; especially every night 
just before sleeping and every morning just after 



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awaking; will certainly canse the most pronounced 
nnbeliever to believe. 

Nothing can nproot and overcome such auto- 
suggestions, but the will of the conscious realm 
of the one making the autosuggestions. 

To illustrate — a man who is a rank sceptic de- 
cides to put this matter to the test. Frequently, 
definitely and emphatically he autosuggests, "I 
have been an unbeliever, but I will be such no 
longer. I will believe that Jesus Christ was God 
manifest in the flesh; and that through faith in 
Him, and in the blood which He shed on Calvary, 
I shall be saved." At first he will feel foolish in 
the extreme, and will have difficulty in restraining 
the conscious realm of his mind from expressing 
its opinion of the autosuggestions in such words 
as these, "What nonsense! I don't believe, and I 
never will. ' ' If he permits the conscious realm to 
give utterance to such expressions, he thereby 
nullifies and makes void the autosuggestions of 
belief; and so long as he continues so to do, he 
will remain an unbeliever: but if he restrains the 
conscious realm, and resolutely determines to al- 
low the autosuggestions of belief to have all the 
influence they possibly can upon the subconscious 
.realm of his mind; it will not be long before the 
subconscious realm, accepting the autosuggestions 
of belief as absolute facts, will react upon the 
conscious realm, and cause the conscious realm 
to consider such belief in Jesus Christ the most 
reasonable of all beliefs. 

I was once a guest in the home of a judge, who 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 37 

was a pronounced atheist. Out of courtesy the 
judge and his wife attended several evangelistic 
services held by me. The judge was unmoved, 
but his wife expressed a desire to be saved. In 
her early days she was a nominal believer; but 
association with her husband had caused her to 
disbelieve. After several days of ineffective striv- 
ings and prayer, she came to me and said, "I am 
afraid I never can believe again. I have absorbed 
so much of my husband's teachings, that even 
while I pray I find myself doubting everything." 

I asked her to take hold of my hands and look 
straight into my eyes. She did so. "Now," said 
I, "I want you to repeat these words after me, 'I 
do believe that Jesus Christ saves me now.' " 
"But," she replied, "I can't honestly say that I 
do believe." "I know that," I answered, "but I 
also know that Jesus Christ died to have the 
chance to save you ; and that He certainly is more 
willing to save you this moment than you are to 
be saved. I know that your doubts can be ex- 
pelled by positive emphatic suggestions of belief. 
If you feel that you cannot honestly speak those 
words from the heart, then please, just as a favor 
to me, repeat them after me without necessarily 
meaning them, just as a parrot might speak them. 
Please repeat them after me, 'I do believe that 
Jesus Christ saves me now. ' ' ' 

She started to repeat the words, laughingly, 
but got only as far as "I do believe that — " when 
her voice broke and the tears streamed from her 
eyes; and her face began to shine with the glory 



38 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

of heaven. No need then to ask her to repeat the 
words. Quickly kneeling beside a chair she looked 
toward the sky, as she cried out exultantly, "I do 
believe! oh glory, glory be to God! I do believe." 

I never saw a happier christian than that lady 
was from that moment. 

God's suggestion to unregenerated men is this: 

"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt 
be saved." Ac. 16:31. Christ Jesus says, "This is 
the work of God, (literally, the one work which 
God demands that men shall do) that ye believe 
on Him whom He hath sent." John 6:29. "He 
that believeth on Him is not condemned: but he 
that believeth not is condemned (literally, judged) 
already, because he hath not believed in the name 
of the only begotten Son of God." John 3:18. 

It is a psychological fact that a man can make 
himself believe or disbelieve in Jesus Christ, ac- 
cording as he wills in the conscious realm of his 
mind. This is what Christ Jesus meant when he 
said, "Ye will not come to Me, that ye might have 
life." John 5:40. 

Autosuggestions which at first appear foolish 
to the conscious realm of the mind making them, 
are soon made to appear reasonable by the reac- 
tion of the subconscious realm upon the conscious 
realm. Thus multitudes of people autosuggest 
themselves into believing all sorts of impossible, 
weird and fantastic things; whilst they still con- 
sider their peculiar beliefs most rational. Failing 
to realize the conditions of mind into which they 
have autosuggested themselves, they imagine that 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 39 

they are superior in intellectuality; and look down 
upon others whom they consider extremely gul- 
lible. This psychological phenomenon explains so- 
called Christian Science, Theosophy, infidelity, 
etc. 

The only absolutely unsuggestible being who 
has ever lived in human form, is Christ Jesus, the 
conscious realm of the mind of God. All sub- 
teachers have been suggestible to evil. Since we 
know the tremendous power of suggestion, and 
how easily men deceive themselves and are de- 
ceived, how foolish we are if we trust our own 
conclusions, or the conclusions of sub-teachers, 
when they are antagonistic to the teachings of 
Christ Jesus. 

There are doubtless times when men and wo- 
men, who are in right relation to God, are inspired 
by the Spirit of God to speak the words of God 
and do the works of God: but under no circum- 
stances could God ever possibly inspire any man 
or woman, to say or do anything antagonistic to 
the plain teachings of Christ Jesus. God cannot 
contradict Himself: and Christ Jesus is the con- 
scious realm of the mind of God. 

Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy claimed to be in- 
spired of God. The inspiration which she thought 
was of God, was doubtless the inspiration of the 
subconscious realm of her own mind; and was 
purely mental. This is proven in her own teach- 
ings, wherein she most clearly demonstrates that 
her so-called Science is purely mental. 

That God could not possibly have inspired her 



40 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

teachings, is manifest in the fact that all the 
vital doctrines of Jesus Christ are antagonized by 
her. 

Her claim of inspiration is, in the light of her 
own teachings, impossible and irrational. She 
teaches that God is Mind; and vet is without per- 
sonality. A mind without personality is an ab- 
surdity. She asserts that God has no knowledge 
of evil; and yet claims that God inspired her to 
teach the existence of "mortal mind" as an ex- 
planation of the existence of evil. If God has no 
knowledge of evil, how could He possibly have 
inspired her to write anything about evil? 

By autosuggestions Mrs. Eddy made herself 
believe that everything material is unreal, and 
non-existent; and that sin, sickness and death are 
unrealities, nothing more than hallucinations of 
"mortal mind:" and that mortal mind itself has 
no existence, except in the thoughts of mortal 
mind, which does not exist. 

In other words: Mortal mind, which never ex- 
isted, thought thoughts of evil that were never 
thought, and wrought deeds of evil that were 
never wrought; and an impersonal mind, called 
God, sent to this material earth, which never ex- 
isted, (except in the thoughts of mortal mind of 
which God has no knowledge) a living manifesta- 
tion of Himself, in a material body (which never 
existed); that He might be the way shower, di- 
recting the minds of men (which never had any 
existence apart from the one Mind, God) how to 
overcome evil (which never existed, and of which 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 41 

God has no knowledge). The living manifesta- 
tion of the impersonal principle, God, was known 
as Jesus Christ. After Jesus Christ had lived in 
a material body (which never existed) for thirty 
three years, on this material planet (which never 
existed), and had shown the truth of God to the 
minds of men (which have no existence apart from 
the one Mind, God), He was persecuted, beaten, 
crowned with thorns and finally crucified, (all in 
a material body which never existed except in the 
thoughts of mortal mind, which itself never ex- 
isted) on a material cross (which never existed). 
As the result of the crucifixion He died a death 
which He never died, and His material body (which 
never existed) was buried in a material tomb 
(which never existed). Then after Christ found 
Himself buried in the tomb, He spent the time 
studying Christian Science until He had so per- 
fected Himself in it, that He was able to heal the 
unreal wounds which He had received in His un- 
real body, and raise Himself by the power of 
Christian Science from the unreal dead condition 
in which He never was, Then after His resurrec- 
tion from His unreal death, and from His unreal 
tomb, He passed through a transition, called the 
ascension, and withdrew from the unreal material 
body (in which He never was), and again became 
joined unto the one impersonal Mind, from which 
He had never been separated. 

No intelligent person who has made a study of 
Mrs. Eddy's book, "Science and Health," which 
is the text book of Christian Science, can deny 



42 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

that my summing up of Mrs. Eddy's teachings is 
just and correct. 

The Christian Scientists of course will say, "0 
he does not understand;" but I know, and I trust 
all my readers will know, that it is the Christian 
Scientist himself who fails to understand. 

Thousands of intelligent men and women be- 
lieve the teachings of Mrs. Eddy; even though the 
acceptance of them has caused them to disbelieve 
their every normal faculty, and the plainest utter- 
ances of Christ Jesus. 

Why is this so ? The secret lies in the fact that 
Mrs. Eddy suggests in her writings, that her 
readers will be healed of bodily ailments even as 
they read her book, providing they accept her 
teaching as the absolute truth of God. In the hope 
that this may be true, her readers, the majority 
of whom are sufferers in their bodies, begin at 
once to affirm the truthfulness of her teachings; 
and by constant affirmations, or autosuggestions, 
cause the subconscious realms of their minds to 
believe her statements to be the truth of God. 
The subconscious realms of their minds, being 
devoid of reason and judgment, accept their every 
affirmation or autosuggestion at face value, until 
the affirmations congeal into the fixed idea, that 
Mrs. Eddy was indeed inspired of God, and that 
her teachings are in accordance with the truth of 
God. After they have autosuggested themselves 
into the fixed idea condition of mind; they are 
almost beyond self help; just as are the insane 
along any other line. 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 43 

There is much in the teachings of Mrs. Eddy 
which is beautiful, and in accord with the Word 
of God; but every vital doctrine concerning sin 
and the atonement, as taught by Jesus Christ and 
His apostles, is antagonized by her. 

Jesus Christ always recognized the reality of 
evil, sin, sickness and death, but by the Almighty 
power of His own God mind, overcame evil in 
every form. He taught His disciples to pray con- 
tinually to be delivered from the power of the 
Evil One; and to overcome evil with good. 

Christ Jesus knew that the eternal destiny of 
the souls of untold millions depended upon their 
understanding His teachings; and He had abso- 
lute command of the language in which He spoke. 
Had He desired to teach men that sin, sickness, 
and death were unreal, existent only in mortal 
mind, he most certainly would have done so; and 
not left mankind to struggle blindly on through- 
out the ages. He did teach that God and His 
forces of good, are. battling against Satan and his 
forces of evil, for the control of the minds of men; 
and that it rests- in the will of each man to deter- 
mine whether God or Satan shall be victorious, 
in each individual case. He taught that all men, 
everywhere, must believe in Him as God manifest 
in the flesh; and believe in the atonement which 
He made on the cross of Calvary; and in the blood 
which He shed; as the only propitiation for sin. 
He taught that He was God, living in a human 
form; and that the blood which He shed, as a 
sacrifice for sin, was the blood of God; that is, 



44 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

the peculiar property of God. The blood of Jesus 
Christ was not the blood of a human being; but 
the blood which belonged to the human body, that 
was indwelt by Christ Jesus, the conscious realm 
of the mind of God. Christ Jesus was God, and 
God only. His mind was never united with a hu- 
man mind. He was l ' the man Christ Jesus. " God 
manifest in the flesh. The body of Jesus Christ 
was born of the Virgin Mary; but the mind that 
indwelt that body was the mind of God. 

The Scriptures teach us that Christ Jesus "was 
in all points tempted like as we are, yet without 
sin." Heb. 4:15. He was tempted *(kata panta) 
according to all things, or in every respect like as 
we are (kath omoioteta). This Greek expression 
means, according to, or answering to likeness. His 
temptations were like ours, but not the same as 
ours. They were like our temptations, in that 
they came through the same channels as ours; yet 
without sin (choris amartias). This expression 
means apart from the idea of sin. 

Christ Jesus could not have sinned, for he was 
God. 

To teach that Christ Jesus was merely a man, 
like unto any other man; a son of God, just as all 
men are sons of God: is blasphemy. 

Christ Jesus is the only visible, and only know- 



* The author is indebted for all the Greek translations 
which are in this book, where the literal Greek expressions 
are quoted, to his brother, the Rev. T. J. McCrossan B. A., 
B. D., author of "Jesus Christ As A Higher Critic;" formerly 
instructor in Greek in Manitoba University. 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 45 

able realm of the one Mind, God. (This subject 
is dealt with in Chapter VI.) 

* # * * * * # 

The forces of nature were no less wonderful in 
the palmy days of Greece and Rome, than they 
are in our own day; but men have now begun to 
realize and appropriate such forces. Could 
Thomas Edison have conversed with the most 
brilliant thinkers of Greece, and told them of the 
things which he was destined to accomplish, they 
would have considered him an insane dreamer. 
The telegraph, telephone, electric car, wireless 
telegraphy, seismograph, spectroscope, X-Ray, 
phonograph, moving picture, would all have been 
looked upon as miraculous even by our forefath- 
ers. 

Men have always had within them the latent 
unused forces of the subconscious realm of the 
mind, but only recently have they begun to real- 
ize and appropriate those forces. 

To illustrate what I mean by realizing and ap- 
propriating the forces of the subconscious realm 
of one 's mind, I will relate a few personal experi- 
ences. 

After studying along this line for many years, 
I became convinced that men could control their 
minds so as to work subconsciously at will. By 
experimenting I learned that I could produce a 
frenzy of thought along almost any particular line 
I might choose. I had never written a story, but 
greatly desired to do so. I was in evangelistic 
work and felt the need of a soul stirring book 



46 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

which would rouse the enthusiasm of the young 
people. I instructed the subconscious realm of 
my mind, clearly setting forth the needs which 
the book must fill. Almost immediately I felt the 
impulse to write. In three weeks the book, which 
bears the title, "Love and Life," was completed. 

Finding difficulty at times to secure hymns ap- 
propriate to various discourses, I began to wish I 
could write hymns myself. I had never written 
poetry and had never had a music lesson. 

However as my longings grew, I prayed earnest- 
ly, and became convinced that I could and would 
write hymns which God could use. I encouraged 
and instructed the subconscious realm of my mind, 
until at last I succeeded in writing about thirty 
hymns; both the words and music of which were 
my own. 

Following the writing of the thirty hymns, I 
wrote scarcely a line of poetry for over sixteen 
years. During those years I had come to under- 
stand more fully how to instruct the subconscious 
realm of my mind. For instance, I had never writ- 
ten a short story; but decided to experiment along 
that line. 

I positively and definitely instructed the sub- 
conscious realm of my mind to prepare five 
stories, clustering about the same character. Two 
or three months passed before I had any over- 
whelming impulse to write; but when the impulse 
did come, I wrote five complete stories in a few 
weeks; averaging about twelve thousand words. 

I was in England at the time of the coronation 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 47 

of King George V.; and witnessing the homage 
of the whole Empire, cansed me to think of what 
the coronation of King Jesns mnst have meant to 
the hosts of heaven, and to the nntold millions of 
the redeemed. That would be a theme worthy 
the greatest poem man conld write. I determined, 
if I had it in me, -to write a poem on the subject 
that would be worth while. I subjected the sub- 
conscious realmof my mind to positive, definite, 
emphatic, frequent autosuggestions. I decided 
to entitle the poem, "The Coronation Of Jesus 
Christ." I autosuggested in about the following 
manner, "Subconscious realm, I desire you to 
write a poem upon the coronation of Jesus Christ. 
You could not possibly have a more exalted theme. 
There is opportunity here for all the descriptive 
power and imagination that you have within you. 
You are going to exalt Jesus Christ until all who 
read the poem will be forced to realize His deity. 
You are going to tell of His glorious resurrection, 
and of His ascension; and describe the coronation 
route to heaven. You are going to gather to- 
gether all the precious truths which are stored 
within your memory, which will aid in the mak- 
ing of this poem. You are going to concentrate 
all the literary power within you along this one 
line until the poem is complete. As soon as you 
have the material ready, you are going to give it 
to me, in poetic form; in a frenzy of thought. I 
will hold myself ready at any moment, day or 
night, to respond to your impulses." Over and 
over again I autosuggested in this manner, for 



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nearly three months, without having the slightest 
impulse to write: and then suddenly one evening 
about seven o'clock, the thought frenzy came 
upon me. For three days and three nights I did 
not leave my typewriter for more than two hours 
at any time. At the end of three days and three 
nights the poem, "The Coronation Of Jesus 
Christ," was complete. I published it just as I 
wrote it during those days. It made twenty seven 
pages of printed matter. 

As soon as I had completed the one poem I be- 
gan to auto suggest the writing of poems upon 
other themes, and the poetic condition of thinking 
continued. Every thought that entered the con- 
scious realm of my mind, seemed to enter it in 
rhythm. During the three months following I 
wrote almost all the poems of any length which 
now make the complete volume entitled, " Cana- 
dian Heart Songs. " 

After writing poetry for six or seven hours 
each day for three months, I grew exceedingly 
tired, and finally emphatically suggested .to the 
subconscious realm of my mind, that I had writ- 
ten all the poetry that I desired to write at that 
time. The frenzy of poetic thinking ceased as 
suddenly as it had begun. For several days there- 
after, I had much the same feeling which a person 
has, who steps upon the firm earth after being 
tossed for days upon the ocean in a storm. 



Chapter V. 

THE SUPEBCONSCIOUS EEALM OF THE 
MIND OF MAN. 

The superconscious realm is the only division 
of the mind of man which has a capacity for God. 

There are no analogies in nature whereby one 
can perfectly illustrate eternal truths. I use 
therefore a very imperfect illustration which I 
hope, however, may convey some conception of 
the truth. 

The normal pistil of a flower has every capacity 
for the reception of life through pollenization. If 
the pollen is brought into contact with the pistil, 
the pistil is fertilized. If, however, the pollen is 
not brought into contact with the pistil within a 
certain limited time, the pistil forever loses its 
capacity for pollenization or fertilization. 

Enfolded within the subconscious realm of the 
mind of man, is that realm of the mind known as 
the superconscious. The superconscious realm 
corresponds to the pistil of the flower; and has 
every capacity for the reception of the life of God, 



50 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

through pollenization. The pollen of God is the 
Word of God, and when it is applied by the Holy 
Spirit to the superconscious realm of a man's 
mind, it fertilizes and eternalizes the man's soul; 
and causes the life and nature of God to be re- 
produced in him. 

Man cannot pollenize the superconscious realm 
of his own mind; neither can another man pollen- 
ize it for him. The pollenization can be accom- 
plished only by the Holy Spirit of God. 

This pollenization of the superconscious realm 
of the mind of man, is referred to by Christ Jesus 
as the new birth. Every normal human being, 
who has reached the age of accountability , has 
the capacity for pollenization by the Word of 
God ; until pollenization takes place, or in the 
natural course of life all capacity for polleniza- 
tion is forever lost. 

Many teachers are declaring today that all men 
are the sons of God. To accept such teaching as 
true, is to brand the teaching of Christ Jesus as 
false. If all men are the sons of God, then Nico- 
demus was a son of God; and yet to Nicodemus 
Christ Jesus said, "Ye must be born again." John 
3:7. If all men are the sons of God, then John 
was in error; for he declared, "As many as re- 
ceived Him, to them gave He power to become 
the sons of God." John 1:12. When the phari- 
sees claimed to be the sons of God, Christ Jesus 
replied, "If God were your Father, ye would love 
Me. Ye are of your father the devil." John 
8:42-44. 



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The new birth, or the pollenization of the super- 
conscious realm of the mind of man by the Word 
of God, is, "not of blood," (that is, it has no con- 
nection with the natural birth) "nor of the will 
of the flesh," (that is, no man by his own will, or 
by any act of his own, can make himself a son of 
God) "nor of the will of man," (that is, no man 
can by his will or by any act, such as baptism 
etc., make another man a child of God) but of 
God." John 1:13. 

Four times in the following two texts, Christ 
Jesus, the conscious realm of the mind of God, 
emphatically declares that the statements He 
makes are certainly the truth of God: — 

"Verily (certainly), verily (certainly), I say 
unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot 
see the Kingdom of God. Verily (certainly), ver- 
ily (certainly), I say unto thee, Except a man be 
born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter 
into the Kingdom of God. ' ' John 3 :3, 5. 

Shall we accept these positive and tremendous- 
ly emphasized utterances of Christ Jesus, or shall 
we set them aside and cling to the utterances of 
sub-teachers, who know not what they teach? 
Shall we not at all times remember that Christ 
Jesus, being God manifest in the flesh, could not 
by any possibility have erred, since He was never 
suggestible to evil; while every sub-teacher, no 
matter how honest and earnest he may be, is at 
all times suggestible to evil, and liable at any 
and all times to be in error? 

The superconscious realm of the mind of man 



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can be pollenized only by the Word of God; which 
is the pollen of God. The Holy Spirit, the super- 
conscious realm of the mind of God, brings the 
Word (or pollen) of God into contact with the 
super conscious realm of the mind of man, only 
after the will of the conscious realm of a man's 
mind has determined to permit the subconscious 
realm to accept the suggestion of God, viz., "Be- 
lieve on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be 
saved." Ac. 16:31. 

God suggests to every man, "Believe on the 
Lord Jesus Christ." God knows that every man 
can believe on the Lord Jesus Christ if he wills 
to do so. 

Many men reject God's suggestion, and refuse 
to believe. 

Other men will to accept God's suggestion, and 
they believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. 

The Holy Spirit never pollenizes the supercon- 
scious realm of the mind of the man who rejects 
God's suggestion. 

The Holy Spirit always immediately pollenizes 
the superconscious realm of the mind of the man 
who wills to accept God's suggestion. 

God demands that all men everywhere receive 
His suggestion; and by frequent, definite, em- 
phatic autosuggestions of belief, make the sub- 
conscious realms of their minds accept as a fixed 
idea of truth, that Christ Jesus is God manifest in 
the flesh, and through Him only can man receive 
eternal life. 

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THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 53 

accept God's suggestion, and begins honestly to 
autosuggest salvation through. Christ Jesus, then 
the Holy Spirit of God commences the polleniza- 
tion, or eternalization, of the superconscious realm 
of the man's mind. 

It was Adam 's heart, or affections, which caused 
him to sin. Eve had sinned and Adam knew it; 
but he loved his wife, and sooner than be sepa- 
rated from her because of her sin, he sinned also. 
Therefore God has ordained that man must return 
to Him through his heart. "With the heart man 
believeth unto righteousness." Eom 10:10. The 
affections and the beliefs, have their seat in the 
subconscious realm of the human mind. There- 
fore God does not argue with men, in an endeavor 
to convince the reason and judgment of the con- 
scious realm; but He suggests to the suggestible 
subconscious realm. 

The subconscious realm (spoken of in the Bible 
as the heart) being devoid of v reason and judg- 
ment, immediately accepts and responds to any 
suggestion; therefore accepts and responds t6 the 
suggestion of God to, "Believe on the Lord Jesus 
Christ." If the subconscious realm of every man's 
mind were left free to act, every man would believe 
on the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved: but untold 
thousands of men harden their hearts against God 
by uprooting and rejecting God's suggestion, 
through the wills of their conscious realms. 

The command of God is, "Let thine heart keep 
My commandments." Pr. 3:1. 

When a man has bv the will of the conscious 



54 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

realm uprooted and rejected God's suggestion, 
then it is trne that he has "neither part nor lot 
in this matter: for" his "heart is not right in the 
sight of God." Ac. 8:21. "The Lord seeth not as 
man seeth; for man looketh on the outward ap- 
pearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart." I 
Sam. 16:7. When David had sinned against God, 
and knew that he had rejected God's suggestions 
of good, he cried out in the agony of his soul, 
' i Create in me a clean heart, God ; and renew a 
right spirit within me." Ps. 51:10. David knew 
that he had caused his own subconscious realm, 
which at first responded to God's suggestions of 
good, to sin through the evil suggestions of his 
own will; and he desired that God might cleanse 
him from sin, and cause his mind to be as respon- 
sive to God's suggestions of good, as it was before 
he sinned. 

The Holy Spirit, through the process of pollen- 
ization, or the new birth, reproduces the life and 
nature of God in man; and makes man a partaker 
of the divine nature. By this process the believer 
in the Lord Jesus Christ is "born again, not of 
corruptible seed (as in the flesh birth), but of in- 
corruptible, by the Word of God, which liveth and 
abideth forever." I Pet. 1:23. 

The teaching of New Thought cults, that Chris- 
tianity is the successful imitating of Jesus Christ, 
is extremely dangerous. An imitation is a coun- 
terfeit. A counterfeit is the most dangerous when 
it is perfect. Christ Jesus never taught unregen- 
erated men to .imitate Him; but He did declare, 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 55 

"Except a man be born again, lie cannot see the 
Kingdom Of God." 

Were I to sit before an organ and attempt to 
imitate Handel or Beethoven, the result would 
be a poor imitation indeed; but if as I sat before 
the organ, the spirit of Handel, or the spirit of 
Beethoven, were to encompass me and absolutely 
possess my every faculty, I could then play just 
as Handel or Beethoven played. 

The christian life is not an imitation of Christ 
Jesus, but a reproduction of Christ Jesus, through 
the actual impartation of the life and nature of 
Christ Jesus, to the superconscious realm of the 
mind of each believer; through the operation of 
the Holy Spirit of God. 

The best acts of the fleshly unregenerated minds 
of men, are abomination in the sight of God. The 
teaching of the Bible is unmistakable along this 
line. All men whose superconscious realms have 
not been fertilized by the pollen of God, the "Word 
of God, are living in the flesh. 

"They that are in the flesh cannot please God." 
Eom. 8:8. 

"We are all as an unclean thing, and all our 
righteousnesses are as filthy rags." Isa. 64:6. 

"He that turneth away his ear from hearing the 
law (or the suggestion of God), even his prayer 
shall be abomination." Pr. 28:9. 

"If he trust to his own righteousness, and com- 
mit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be 
remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath 
committed, he shall die for it." Ezek. 33:13. 



56 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

"To be carnally minded is death; because the 
carnal mind is enmity against God. ' ' Eom. 8 :6, 7. 

Not only is this so, bnt the Word of God dis- 
tinctly states that, "God shall send them strong 
delusion, that they should believe a lie: that they 
all might be damned who believed not the truth, 
but had pleasure in unrighteousness. ' ' 2 Th. 2 :11, 
12. The literal translation of this text makes the 
thought of the apostle more clear. The real 
thought of the text is that Christ Jesus, "the 
truth," has appealed unto men to believe His 
testimony. On the other hand, Satan, "the lie," 
has appealed unto men to believe his utterances 
in preference to the testimony of Christ Jesus. 
All men who determine by the wills of the con- 
scious realms of their minds to disbelieve the tes- 
timony of Christ Jesus, and in preference accept 
and believe the utterances of Satan, will be de- 
livered up by God to the delusion, or fixed idea 
of evil, which will naturally follow the accept- 
ance of Satan's lying suggestions. The thought 
is not that God Himself sends the delusion as an 
act of retaliation or vengeance; but God permits 
the subconscious realms of the Christ rejecters' 
minds, to react upon the conscious realms, thereby 
causing the conscious realms to believe Satan's 
lies to be reasonable and the truth. When the 
Christ rejecter reaches this state, or condition, 
he is the victim of a fixed idea of evil; and is be- 
yond self help. 

This is the condition in which Ephraim was, 
when God said, "Ephraim is joined to idols: let 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 57 

him alone." Hosea 4:17. This too is what God 
meant when He said, i i My Spirit shall not always 
strive with man." Gen. 6:3. 

As we value our eternal salvation, and the sal- 
vation of the souls of others, let us never turn 
one hair's breadth away from the teachings of 
Christ Jesus and His inspired apostles. All sub- 
teachers are suggestible to evil; and we have no 
means of knowing whether they are teaching 
truth or error, unless we gauge their teachings by 
the teachings of Christ Jesus and His apostles. 

Certain it is that no man knows truth, unless 
he knows Christ Jesus, who is the truth. John 
14:6. All sub-teachers who have not experienced 
the new birth, are blind leaders of the blind. All 
philosophies which leave out Christ Jesus and His 
atoning blood, are the product of the natural un- 
regenerated mind only, and abomination before 
God. 

"The natural man receiveth not the things of 
the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto 
him: neither can he know them, because they are 
spiritually discerned.' ' I Cor. 2:14. A brute can- 
not understand philosophy: no more can a brutish 
man understand spiritual truth. It is not more 
light that a blind man needs. He needs that the 
power of sight be given him. A blind man can 
see no better when the sun is high in the heavens 
at the noontide; than he can at midnight, when 
the clouds obscure the moon. An unregenerated 
man is not only blind, but dead in trespasses and 



58 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

sin: and a dead man sees and understands noth- 
ing. 

God suggests to all unregenerated men: "Be- 
lieve on the Lord Jesus Christ. ' ' When this sug- 
gestion has been received and the command has 
been complied with; through willing co-operative 
autosuggestions of belief; regeneration, or the 
new birth, takes place in the superconscious realm 
of the believer's mind; and the believer passes 
from death into life; and becomes a son or daugh- 
ter of God. 

"And this is life eternal, that they might know 
Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom 
Thou hast sent." John 17:3. 



Chapter VI. 

CHRIST JESUS, THE CONSCIOUS REALM 
OF THE MIND OF GOD. 

"God created man in His own image." Gen. 
1:27. 

Man, as he came from his Creator, was the 
image or counterpart of God. God, therefore, is 
the image or counterpart of man, as he was when 
he came from his Creator. Man, as he came from 
his Creator, was a perfect, living, thinking, act- 
ing personality; one mind, divided into three 
realms; the conscious, subconscious and super- 
conscious. God, therefore, is a perfect, living, 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 59 

thinking, acting personality ; one mind, divided 
into three realms; the conscious, subconscious and 
superconscious. 

Each realm in the mind of man has its separate 
and distinct functions; therefore, each realm in 
the mind of God has its separate and distinct 
functions: and since man is the counterpart of 
God, and God is the counterpart of man, each 
realm in the mind of God must have the separate 
and distinct functions which the corresponding 
realm has in the mind of man. 

The conscious realm of the mind of man is the 
seat of reason, judgment, will and the five senses : 
therefore, the conscious realm of the mind of 
God must be the seat of the reason, judgment, will 
and five senses of God. 

"There are three that bear record in heaven, 
the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and 
these three are one." I John 5:7. 

In the eternity, long ages before ' ' time ' ' began, 
only the eternal, immortal, invisible, Father- 
Mother God existed: being one Mind, divided into 
two realms; the Father, the subconscious, and the 
Holy Spirit, the superconscious. 

The Father-Mother God begat Christ: and the 
two realm Mind was made to embrace three 
realms; the Father-Mother God, and Christ. 

The Father-Mother God, the subconscious and 
superconscious realms of the mind of God, have 
always been and shall always be invisible. 

"The King eternal, immortal, invisible, the 
only wise God." I Tim. 1:17. "The blessed and 



60 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of 
lords ; who only hath immortality, dwelling in the 
light which no man can approach unto; whom no 
man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honor 
and power everlasting." I Tim. 6:15, 16. 

Christ was the first of the creation of Gcd. 
Christ was begotten before any other being, or 
thing material, had been created. "I Jesus have 
sent Mine angel to testify unto you these things 
in the churches." Eev. 22:16. The angel whom 
He sent testified, "These things saith the Amen 
(Christ Jesus), the faithful and true witness, the 
beginning of the creation of God." Eev. 3:14. He 
was, "the firstborn of every creature. He is be- 
fore all things." Col. 1:15-17. 

After Christ was begotten, the one Mind, God, 
consisted of three realms: Christ, the conscious 
realm; the Father, the subconscious realm; and 
the Holy Spirit, the superconscious realm. 

No other being or thing material existed in the 
universe, apart from the one three realm Mind, 
God. 

When Christ was begotten He was given a 
form; which the Bible calls "the form of God." 
Up to the time of the begetting of Christ, the 
mind of God did not indwell a form; but was in- 
visible. 

After Christ was begotten, and the mind of 
God indwelt the form of God; the three realms of 
the one Mind determined to create other living 
beings, and the material universe. 

"In the beginning was the Word (Christ), and 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 61 

the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ' ' 
John 1:1. Christ, being the conscious realm of 
the one Mind, God, was with the other realms, 
the subconscious and superconscious; and at the 
same time was God : that is, was a part of the one 
Mind, God. 

"All things were made by Him; and without 
Him was not anything made that was made." 
John 1:3. Just as the subconscious and supercon- 
scious realms of the mind of man can have abso- 
lutely no contact with things material, except 
through the conscious realm; so the subconscious 
and superconscious realms of the mind of God 
can have absolutely no contact with things ma- 
terial, except through Christ, the conscious realm. 

"By Him were all things created, that are in 
heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invis- 
ible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or 
principalities, or powers: all things were created 
by Him and for Him: and He is before all things, 
and by Him all things consist." Col. 1:16, 17. 

"By Him and for Him." The Father and the 
Holy Spirit, the subconscious and superconscious 
realms of the mind of God, could create . only 
through the conscious realm; and could enjoy 
what had been created, only through the senses 
of the conscious realm. 

If sight, hearing, smell, taste and feeling were 
taken from the conscious realm of the mind of 
a man, the subconscious and superconscious 
realms of ' that man's mind would have no possi- 
ble means of contact left with which to establish 



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relationship with things material. In like man- 
ner, the eternal, immortal, invisible, Father-Moth- 
er God, the snbconscions and snperconscions 
realms of the one Mind, wonld have no possible 
means of contact left with which to establish re- 
lationship with things material, if the five senses 
of God which are in Christ, the conscious realm, 
were lost. 

"By Him all things consist." The word "con- 
sist" means "to be composed of." Literally, the 
meaning of the text is, that all things, in heaven 
or in earth, visible or invisible, were composed 
of, or came out of, Christ. 

Christ, the conscious realm, did all His work 
subconsciously; and God the Father, the subcon- 
scious realm, did all His work consciously. Thus 
it is true that Christ created all things; while at 
the same time it is true that the Father created 
all things through Christ. 

God hath spoken unto us, "By His Son, whom 
He hath appointed heir of all things, by whom 
also He made the worlds; who being the bright- 
ness of His glory, and the express image of His 
person, and upholding all things by the word of 
His power." Heb. 1:1-3. 

The eternal, Father-Mother God, addressing 
Christ, the conscious realm, declared, "Thy 
throne, God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of 
righteousness is the sceptre of Thy kingdom. 
Thou, Lord, in the beginning has laid the founda- 
tion of the earth; and the heavens are the works 
of Thine hands." Heb. 1:8, 10. 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 63 

Christ was "the beginning of the creation of 
God," "The first born of every creature," "Be- 
fore all things, and by Him all things consist;" 
and "withont Him was not anything made that 
was made ; ' ' therefore, He was the Creator of all 
beings which exist, apart from the one Mind, God. 

Christ created the angels. One of the first and 
greatest of the angels was Lncif er, son of the 
morning, now Satan. 

In chapter IX, npon, ' ' The Origin Of Evil, Sin, 
Disease and Death," I have proven from the 
Word of God, that Lncif er was at first an honored 
prince amongst the angels of God; bnt at the time 
of the beginning of the creation of the earth, he 
rebelled against God, and many of the angels of 
his principality joined him in his rebellion. 

Lncifer, thongh one of the greatest and most 
honored of the angels, was nevertheless not a son 
of God; bnt a servant only. The knowledge that 
God had planned to create a race to be known as 
"man;" to whom was to be given the capacity 
for the life and natnre of God Himself, seems to 
have made Lncifer insanely jealons: and he de- 
termined to destroy the hnman race, providing 
God carried ont His plan to create it. God could 
not have retained His'character had He permitted 
Satan to intimidate Him. That God knew Satan's 
boast was no idle one, is clear in the fact that 
Christ is spoken of in the Bible as the Lamb of 
God, "slain from the foundation of the world." 
Eev. 13:8. 

"In the beginning (of "time") God created the 



64 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

lieaven and the earth." Gen. 1:1. "The devil 
sinneth from the beginning." I John 3:8. Christ 
Jesus says of Satan, "He was a murderer from 
the beginning." John 8:44. "Thou, Lord in the 
beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth." 
Heb. 1:10. Therefore it was from the time that 
Satan became a murderer, in intention, that 
Christ became the sacrifice, in intention. 

When Christ was first begotten He was called, 
' ' Christ, ' ' meaning ' ' anointed. ' ' 

When Christ determined, at the beginning of 
the creation of the earth, to offer Himself as a 
sacrifice for the sins of men, He received the title 
of "Jesus," meaning "Saviour." 

The teaching that "Christ" is the name given 
by God to the divine nature that was in Christ 
Jesus; and that "Jesus" is the name given by G-od 
to the human nature that was in Christ Jesus, is 
utterly erroneous. 

From the beginning, when the foundation of the 
earth was laid, Christ, the conscious realm of the 
mind of God, has been known as "Christ Jesus." 

"Christ Jesus, being in the form of God, thought 
it not robbery to be equal with God: but made 
Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the 
form of a servant, and was made in the likeness 
of men." Phil. 2:5-7. "Grace, which was given 
us in Christ Jesus before the world began." 2 
Tim. 1:9. 

"Christ Jesus" was the name of the only be- 
gotten Son of God, from the beginning of the 
period called "time." 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 65 

The Virgin Mary gave the form of man to Christ 
Jesus; but she never gave a human mind to Christ 
Jesus. Christ Jesus was not conceived by Mary; 
but by the Holy Ghost; the superconscious realm 
of the mind of God; the eternal Mother God. Mat. 
1:20. 

There is not one utterance of Christ Jesus, or 
of His inspired prophets and apostles, which can 
reasonably be construed to mean that the mind 
which indwelt the human form which was born 
of the Virgin Mary, was, either in part or whole, 
a human mind. The idea that the child which 
was born of Mary was the son of Mary and pos- 
sessed of a human mind, is utterly erroneous. 

"That holy thing which shall be born of thee 
shall be called the Son of God." Luke 1:35. "For 
unto you is born this day, a Saviour, which is 
Christ the Lord. ' ' Luke 2 ill. It was not a human 
son of Mary but Christ the Lord, the conscious 
realm of the mind of God, which was united unto 
mortal flesh in the womb of Mary. 

The baby brain was filled to its utmost capacity 
with the mind of God; and as the brain capacity 
enlarged, through natural growth and increase of 
stature, it was filled to its fulness by the mind of 
God; until finally the full brain capacity of a per- 
fect man was developed. 

The body of the babe which was born of the 
Virgin Mary, was a human body; and the blood 
which coursed through its veins was human blood ; 
but the only mind that dwelt in that body was the 
mind of God. Therefore the body of Christ Jesus, 



66 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

and the blood which was in that body, were not 
the body and blood of a human being; bnt were 
the body and blood of God : that is, the body, and 
the blood that was in the body, were the peculiar 
personal property of God; and He only had the 
right to dispose of them. 

For this reason the terms, "Blood of Jesus," 
"Blood of Christ" and "Blood of God," are used 
synonymously; as in the following texts: — 

"Having therefore, brethren, boldness (or the 
right) to enter into the holiest by the blood of 
Jesus." Heb. 10:19. 

"How much more shall the blood of Christ, who 

through the eternal Spirit offered Himself with- 
out spot to God, purge your conscience." Heb. 
9:14. 

"Feed the church of God, which He hath pur- 
chased with His own blood." Ac. 20:28. 

The expression is, "Dia tou aimatos tou idiou" 
and means literally, "Through the blood which 
was all God's own, personal, private property; 
He only having the right to dispose of it." 

"The man Christ Jesus," (I Tim. 2:5) was "in 
the likeness of men," Phil. 2:7; but nevertheless 
He was, "God manifest in the flesh." I Tim. 3:16. 
The word "manifest" is the strongest word which 
could have been used. The use of this word prac- 
tically means that every normal human being who 
saw Christ Jesus, realized that He was God. The 
reason men rejected and crucified Him was be- 
cause they were not normal; but were blinded by 



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sin; and misguided by the suggestions of the evil 
one. 

' ' God made man in His own image. ' ' The mind 
of God is possessed of every function that is in 
the mind of man: therefore God did not need to 
unite the conscious realm of His mind, with the 
mind of a human being, before He could look upon 
things as man looks upon them. God's mind is 
the counterpart of man's mind, and He fully ap- 
preciates man's every thought and condition. 
Christ Jesus was God and God only; although He 
dwelt in a human form; in the likeness of men. 

"We have not an high priest which cannot be 
touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but 
was in all points tempted like as we are, yet with- 
out sin." Heb. 4:15. The expression here is, 
"Kata panta kath' omoioteta," meaning He was 
tempted according to all things, or in every re- 
spect, like, or answering to likeness, as we are: 
but His temptations while in a likeness to ours, 
were not the same as ours; because the expres- 
sion, "Choris amartias," means apart not only 
from sin, but from the idea of sin. 

Satan did his utmost to tempt Christ Jesus, but 
there was nothing in the nature of Christ Jesus to 
respond to temptation; for He was the conscious 
realm of the mind of God. 

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word 
was with God, and the Word was God. And the 
Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and 
we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only be- 



68 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

gotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.' ' 
John 1:1, 14. 

Christ Jesus was the "child that was born" of 
the Virgin Mary; and "the Son that was given" 
by God the Father: referred to in the text, "For 
unto us a child is born and unto us a son is given : 
and the government shall be upon His shoulder: 
and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsel- 
lor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The 
Prince of Peace." Isa. 9:6. 

"For God so loved the world that He gave His 
only begotten Son." John 3:16. 

Christ Jesus, the conscious realm of the mind 
of God, was the one upon whose shoulder all gov- 
ernment was placed. The conscious realm is the 
seat of reason, judgment and will; and the sub- 
conscious and superconscious realms of the mind 
of God could not reason with men, judge men, uor 
exercise the will of God concerning men, except 
through Christ Jesus, the conscious realm. 

The Father and the Holy Spirit, the subcon- 
scious and superconscious realms, are still invis- 
ible, and unapproachable by men; "Dwelling in 
the light which no man can approach unto: whom 
no man hath seen, nor can see." I Tim. 6:16. 
Christ Jesus, the conscious realm, is the only vis- 
ible and approachable realm of the mind of God. 
The fact that no man can approach unto the Fath- 
er-Mother God, and that no man has seen nor can 
see the Eternal One; is absolute proof that Christ 
Jesus was God only, so far as His mind was con- 
cerned : for Christ Jesus says, ' ' Not that any man 



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hath seen the Father, save He which is of God 
He hath seen the Father." John 6:46. Again, "I 
speak that which I have seen with My Father." 
John 8:38. To Philip Christ Jesus said, "He that 
hath seen Me hath seen the Father." John 14:9. 
Christ Jesus was one personality with the Father, 
being one division of the same mind; and yet the 
subconscious and superconscious realms of His 
mind are invisible. Thus it is true that no man 
hath seen or ever can see the invisible realms of 
the mind of God: while at the same time it is true 
that every man who has seen Christ Jesus, has 
seen the conscious realm of the one Mind, God. 

Since the Father and the* Holy Spirit, are in- 
visible and unapproachable, we realize the signifi- 
cance of the words of Christ Jesus when He says, 
"I am the way, the truth and the life: no man 
cometh unto the Father, but by Me." John 14:6. 
There is absolutely no possibility for any man 
to get into contact with God, except through 
Christ Jesus, the conscious realm. 

God can hear the prayers of men only through 
the hearing of the conscious realm, Christ Jesus. 

God can see men only through the sight of the 
conscious realm, Christ Jesus. 

God can reason with men only through the rea- 
son of the conscious realm, Christ Jesus. 

God can judge men only through the judgment 
of the conscious realm, Christ Jesus. 

God can will to save men, only through the will 
of the conscious realm, Christ Jesus. 

The only God this world has ever known, or 



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ever will know, is the conscious realm of the mind 
of God, Christ Jesus. 

It was Christ Jesus who spoke to Adam in the 
garden of Eden; who appeared nnto Abraham; 
who walked with Enoch; who appeared nnto 
. Moses in the mount, and gave him the command- 
ments; who manifested Himself unto Joshua and 
Isaiah; in the form of God. 

Christ Jesus is the Wonderful, the Creator of all 
things; the Counsellor, the law giver; the mighty- 
God, through whom the eternal God working con- 
sciously does all the mighty works of God; the 
everlasting Father, one mind, one personality with 
the eternal One ; and the Prince Of Peace, the One 
who shall conquer all the enemies of God, and 
bring universal peace. 

The day is surely coming when the kingdoms 
of this world shall be the kingdoms of our God; 
and Christ Jesus shall be the One to whom every 
knee shall bow and every tongue confess: for, 
"God also hath highly exalted Him, and given 
Him a name which is above every name: that at 
the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of 
things in heaven, and things in earth, and things 
under the earth; and that every tongue should 
confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of 
God the Father." Phil. 2:9-11. "Worthy is the 
Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, 
and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, 
and blessing. Blessing, and honour, and glory, 
and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 71 

throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever," 
Bev. 5:12, 13. 

Christ Jesus, the conscious realm of the mind 
of God, is the seat of the reason, judgment, will 
and senses of God. Though the mind of man has 
three realms, man has but one reason, one judg- 
ment, one will, one conscience etc.; so the mind, 
of God, having three realms, has nevertheless but 
one reason, one judgment, one will, one conscience 
etc.. 

The conscious realm of the mind of man can 
work subconsciously only when it works through 
those functions which have their seat in the sub- 
conscious realm; and the subconscious realm can 
work consciously only when it works through 
those functions which have their seat in the con- 
scious realm. For instance, affection has its seat 
in the subconscious realm; therefore man can love 
only through the subconscious realm: and the 
will has its seat in the conscious realm; therefore 
a man can will onh^ through the conscious realm. 

Each realm in the mind of God is the counter- 
part of the same realm in the mind of man. The 
love of God has its seat in the subconscious realm 
of the mind of God; therefore, Christ Jesus, the 
conscious realm, can love only through the sub- 
conscious realm: and the will of God has its seat 
in the conscious realm; therefore the Father, the 
subconscious realm, can will only through Christ 
Jesus the conscious realm. 

It was Christ Jesus, the Lord, who spoke 
through the lips of Isaiah, saying, "Come now 



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and let us reason together;" (Isa. 1:18) for reason 
has its seat in the conscious realm. 

Christ Jesus Himself declared, "The Father 
judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment 
unto the Son: that all men should honour the Son, 
even as they honour the Father." John 5:22, 23. 
Judgment has its seat in the conscious realm. 

The inspired apostle Paul writes, "This is the 
will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you." 1 
Thes. 5:18. The will has its seat in the conscious 
realm. 

Since the will of God is "in Christ Jesus, " it is 
clear that the Father and the Holy Spirit, the sub- 
conscious and superconscious realms, can not pos- 
sibly will anything except through the will which 
is in Christ Jesus, the conscious realm. 

Just as any suggestion made to the subcon- 
scious or superconscious realm of the mind of 
man, can be rejected or uprooted by the will of 
the conscious realm; so the will of Christ Jesus, 
the conscious realm of the mind of God, can reject 
or uproot any suggestion made to the Father or 
the Holy Spirit, the subconscious avA supercon- 
scious realms of the mind of God. 

The subconscious realm of the mind of man is 
suggestible; and the subconscious realm of the 
mind of God is- also suggestible. Christ Jesus 
teaches that all prayer should be addressed to 
the Father, the subconscious realm. 

"After this manner therefore pray ye: Our 
Father which art in heaven." Mat. 6:9. "Thy 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 73 

Father which seetli in secret, shall reward thee 
openly." Mat. 6:18. 

However while prayer must be addressed to the 
Father, the suggestible subconscious realm of the 
mind of God, it is the inviolable law of God that 
each prayer must be offered in the name of Christ 
Jesus, and in accordance with the will of Christ 
Jesus, the conscious realm. "Whatsoever ye shall 
ask in My namle, that will I do, that the Father 
may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any- 
thing in My name, I will do it." John 14:13, 14. 
"Whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in My 
name, He may give it you," John 15:16. "Verily, 
verily, (certainly, certainly) I say unto you, 
Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in My name, 
He will give it you." John 16:23. 

Asking in the name of Christ Jesus precludes 
any asking which is not in perfect accord with 
the revealed will of Christ Jesus. No prayer, or 
suggestion, to the Father, can by any possibility 
be answered, unless it is in harmony with the will 
of Christ Jesus: since all prayers, or suggestions, 
made to the Father, which are not in accord with 
the will of Christ Jesus, are instantly rejected and 
uprooted by the will of Christ Jesus. Thus we 
realize the significance of the words of Christ 
Jesus, when He says, "No man cometh unto the 
Father, but by Me." John 14:6 

It is a psychological impossibility for God the 
Father, the subconscious realm of the mind of 
God, to will to respond to any prayer or sugges- 



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tion made to Him, except through the will of 
Christ Jesus, the conscious realm. 

All prayers, therefore, which are not in accord 
with the will of Christ Jesus, are absolutely inef- 
fective. 

What the will of Christ Jesus is in regard to 
prayer, is most clearly set forth in the teachings 
of the New Testament. 

The sinner must first acknowledge himself a 
sinner, and confess his need of a Saviour. He 
must truly repent of his sins, and believe on the 
Lord Jesus Christ as the only Saviour from sin. 
He must, by frequent, definite, emphatic autosug- 
gestions of belief in Christ Jesus, force his mind 
to receive the fixed idea of truth, that Christ 
Jesus, God manifest in the flesh, took upon Him- 
self the form of man and offered Himself as an 
atonement for sin; "That whosoever believeth in 
Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." 
John 3 :16. When the sinner has thus caused him- 
self to believe in Christ Jesus, and in the atone- 
ment which He has made; then Christ Jesus, 
through the operation of the Eternal Spirit, im- 
parts the eternal life and nature of God to the 
believer. Henceforth as a son of God the believer 
may address God his Father, in the name of 
Christ Jesus the Lord, and ask for anything, 
which he knows through his study of the Bible, it 
is the will of Christ Jesus to give unto him. 

All other philosophies and theories of salvation 
are out of harmony with the teachings and the 
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As the apostle Paul most vehemently expressed 
it, "Though we, or an angel from heaven, preach 
any other gospel unto you than that which we 
have preached unto you, let him be accursed. ' ' Gal. 
1:8. 

The only possible way to God is through Christ 
Jesus, the conscious realm, 

The only manifestation there ever was, or ever 
will be, of God, is Christ Jesus, the conscious 
realm. 

The only life which it is possible for God to 
impart to man, whereby the superconscious realm 
of the mind of man can be fertilized and eternal- 
ized, is the life which "is hid with Christ in God," 
Col. 3:3. 

The teaching that Christ Jesus was a human 
being, and the son of God only in the same sense 
that all other human beings are the sons of God; 
is blasphemous in the extreme. 

Christ Jesus manifested the fact that He was 
God, in every act and word. 

He was greater than the Sabbath. "The Son 
of Man is Lord also of the sabbath." Luke 6:5. 
He was greater than the temple. "I say unto you, 
that in this place is one greater than the temple. ' ' 
Mat. 12:6. He was greater than the law of Moses. 
"It was said by them of old time, Thou shaft not 
commit adultery: but I say unto you, that whoso- 
ever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath 
committed adultery with her already in his heart. ' ' 
Mat. 5:27, 28. "It hath been said, thou shalt love 
thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. But I say 



76 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

unto you, Love your enemies." Mat. 5:43, 44. He 
was greater than natural laws. He was greater 
than gravitation. He walked on the water. John 
6:18-21. He ascended to heaven. Ac. 1:9. He 
changed water into wine. John 2:7-10. He fed 
five thousand men besides women and children 
with five small loaves and two fishes. Mat. 14:15- 
20. "He rebnked the wind and the. raging of the 
water: and they ceased, and there was a calm." 
Lnke 8:24. He was greater than the angels. 
"Thinkest thou I cannot now pray My Father, 
and He shall presently give Me more than twelve 
legion of angels." Mat. 26:53. "Being made so 
much better than the angels. Let all the angels 
of God worship Him." Heb. 1:4-6. He was greater 
than Satan and his demons. He cast out devils. 
Luke 8:26-28; 4:33-36; 6:18. He gave His disci- 
ples power over all devils.: Luke 9:1. He was 
greater than any sickness or disease. "He rebuked 
the fever and it left her." Luke 4:39. He healed 
the man sick of the palsy. Luke 5:18-25. He 
healed the woman whom all physicians failed to 
heal. Luke 8 :43-48. He healed a man full of lep- 
rosy. Luke 5:12, 13. "He laid His hands on every 
one of them, and healed them." Luke 4:40. He 
was greater than life, and has the same power 
over life that the Father has. John 5:26. He can 
quicken whom He will. John 5:21. He had the 
power to lay down His life and the power to take 
it up again. John 10:17, 18. He proved this by 
raising from the dead the son of the widow of 
Nain (Luke 7:12-15), the daughter of Jairus (Luke 



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§:40-42, 49-56), Lazarus, when he had been dead 
four days (John 11:1-44) and by rising from the 
dead Himself. John 20:1-31. He is greater than 
death, being the resurrection and the life, and His 
voice shall call all the dead from their graves. 
John 11:25; 5:25. He gives eternal life to all who 
believe. John 10:27-30. He is greater than the 
judgment, and saves from condemnation all who 
believe. John 5:24. He is to be the judge in the 
judgment day. John 5:22, 23. He is the only light 
from God that has come into this world (John 
8:12) ; the only door by which men can enter into 
the fold of G-od (John 10:1, 7-9); the only shep- 
herd who can feed the flock of God (John 10:11) ; 
the bread of life and the water of life (John 6:33- 
35) ; the first to teach the value of the individual, 
the one prodigal (Luke 15:11-24), the one sheep 
(Luke 15:4-7), the one piece of silver (Luke 15:8- 
10) ; and the only one who ever revealed God to 
man as a loving Father, who was willing to hear 
and answer the prayers of His children. Luke 
10:22; 11:2, 13. 

Even when a boy of but twelve years of age He 
taught the Doctors of the Law, in the temple; and 
they marvelled at His wisdom. Even then He 
said to Mary, "Wist ye not that I must be about 
My Father's business!" Luke 2:49. 

The claim of Christ Jesus Himself is that He 
never thought a thought, nor spoke a word, nor 
did an act, consciously, even in the most relaxed 
moments of His earthly life; but He declares most 
emphatically that every thought and word and 



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act of His life was the thought and word and act 
of the Father, the subconscious realm of His mind. 

He claims that the subject matter of all of His 
conversations was given to Him by His Father; 
and that the identical words with which He gave 
expression to that subject matter, were dictated 
to Him by His Father. 

He always spoke of His Father as being in Him 
and in Heaven; and of Himself as being in the 
Father. "Believe Me that I am in the Father, 
and the Father in Me." John 14:11. "He that 
sent Me is with Me: the Father hath not left Me 
alone; for I do always those things that please 
Him." John 8:29. 

The human form that was indwelt by Christ 
Jesus, was as full of the mind of God at all times 
as it was possible for it to be • and yet at the same 
time the mind of God also indwelt the form of 
God in Heaven. 

The Holy Spirit has proven, and is proving ev- 
ery day, that the mind of God can indwell millions 
of forms at the same time; for the Word distinctly 
teaches that the body of each individual believer 
in the Lord Jesus Christ, is indwelt by the Holy 
Spirit. I Cor. 3:16, 17,. 

The Greek expressions used by Christ Jesus are 
very explicit. He says, "The Father which sent 
Me, He gave Me a commandment (entole, a spe- 
cific injunction) what I should say, (eipo, from 
epos, a word, meaning the identical words) and 
what I should speak (laleso, from laleo, I talk or 



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chatter, meaning the subject matter even of the 
lightest conversations). John 12:49. 

The doctrine of Kenosis, of which the so-called 
Higher Critics make so much, is the doctrine of 
Christ Jesus emptying Himself. They claim that 
when Paul said, ' ■ Christ Jesus — made Himself of 
no reputation," etc. (Phil. 2:5-8), the apostle 
meant that Christ Jesus emptied Himself of at 
least some of His divine attributes; and was there- 
fore mistaken about many. things, just as any 
other man might have been : but a careful analysis 
of the expression which forms the basis of this 
doctrine will convince any real thinker that the 
suppositions of the critics are based upon a false 
premise. 

The expression "all' eauton ekenose" (from 
kenoo, I empty, or I drain) means to empty to the 
draining point. If, therefore, the text refers to 
any of the attributes of God in Christ Jesus, it 
must of necessity include all of them. There must 
have been an emptying to the draining point, of 
whatever is referred to in the text. There is no 
reference whatever in the text to the attributes 
of God. In one respect only did Christ Jesus 
empty Himself to the draining point; and that was 
in regard to the exercise of His will. The will of 
God has its seat in Christ Jesus (I Th. 5:18), the 
conscious realm of the mind of God; and He had 
the right to exercise that will at all times; but He 
permitted the Father, the subconscious realm, to 
exercise the will of God at all times. 

Christ Jesus made this truth clear when He 



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said, "I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father 
hath taught Me, I speak these things. ' ' John 8 :28. 
"I do nothing of Myself,'' (ap'emautou poio 
ouden) literally, "On My own initiative I do not 
one single thing: but according as (kathos) My 
Father hath taught Me, I speak these things.'' 
"My doctrine is not Mine, but His that sent me." 
John 7:16. "The Word which ye hear is not 
Mine, but the Father's which sent Me." John 
14:24. "The words that I speak unto you I speak 
not of Myself; but the Father that dwelleth in Me, 
He doeth the works." John 14:10. The literal 
Greek reads, "The Father dwelling in Me, He 
doeth the works of Himself." 

At the close of His ministry, just before His 
crucifixion, He said to the Father, "I have given 
unto them the words which Thou gavest Me." 
John 17:8. In the garden of Gethsemane, when 
He knew that His time had come to die, He said, 
"Abba, Father, take away this cup from Me: 
nevertheless not what I will, but what Thou wilt. ' ' 
Mark 14:36. 

That the doctrine of kenosis, the doctrine of 
Christ Jesus emptying Himself, had no reference 
whatever to the attributes of God in Christ Jesus, 
is manifest in the texts: — 

"All things that the Father hath are Mine." 
John 16:15. (Panta 'osa echei 'o pater ema esti) 
Christ Jesus herein uses the present tense. He 
literally says, "All things as many as the Father 
has right now, are Mine right now." 

"In Him dwelleth all the fulness of the God- 



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head bodily." Col. 2:9. The word "fulness" 
(pleroma) comes from "pleroo" meaning, I fill 
full to the brim. This would have been sufficient; 
but when the apostle adds the word "all" (pan 
to pleroma) he makes the thought as strong as it 
can be made. The literal meaning of the expres- 
sion is that the bodily form of Christ Jesus was 
just as full of God as it was possible to be. The 
critics, therefore, are forced to acknowledge that 
Christ Jesus was God manifest in the flesh; and 
that His bodily form was as full of God at all 
times as it was possible to be; or else declare that 
the words written by the apostle Paul are false. 

"In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom 
and knowledge." Col. 2:3. The words "sophia" 
and "gnosis" as used herein, together with the 
expression "pantes oi thesauroi, " certainly in- 
clude all possible wisdom and knowledge. 

Since Christ Jesus was as full of God as it was 
possible to be; and possessed at all times every- 
thing that God the Father possessed, amongst 
which possessions were all possible wisdom and 
knowledge; how could He possibly have erred in 
anything ? 

Shall we listen to the criticisms of men who 
know not what they teach, in preference to the 
teachings of Christ Jesus? Surely Christ Jesus 
is infinitely more worthy of trust, than the so- 
called Higher Critics. 

"And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt 
among us, full of grace and truth." John 1:14. 
The Greek expression herein is, "Pleres charitos 



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kai aletheias." The adjective "pleres" means 
full to the brim. The literal meaning of the text 
then is that Christ Jesus, the Word, was fnll to 
the brim of grace and truth. Since He was full 
of the wisdom, and knowledge, and truth of God, 
how could He have been ignorant of anything, or 
have erred in any manner? 

The Psychology Of The Atonement. 

Only through the senses of the conscious realm 
of the human mind, can physical pain be felt. The 
instant a human being loses consciousness, the 
realization of pain ceases. The subconscious and 
superconscious realms of the human mind have no 
realization of physical pain. The hypnotized man, 
the conscious realm of whose mind is asleep, real- 
izes no physical pain, even when a needle is 
driven through his tongue, The subconscious 
realm of the human mind can be made to suffer 
pain only through suggestion: which process is 
entirely mental, and not physical. 

The mind of God is the counterpart of the mind 
of man; therefore, only through the senses of the 
conscious realm of the mind of God, can physical 
pain be felt by God. The subconscious and super- 
conscious realms of the mind of God, could under 
no possible conditions be made to realize physical 
pain. The subconscious realm of the mind of God 
could be made to suffer only through suggestion: 
which process would be mental, and not physical. 

Had Christ Jesus continued to remain in the 
form of God, His senses could under no possible 
condition have brought to Him a realization of 



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physical pain; because the form of God is immor- 
tal, and subject neither to pain nor death. That 
He might place Himself in such a condition that 
He could realize pain through His senses, and 
make physical death a possibility to Him; thus 
enabling Him to offer Himself as a sacrifice for 
sin; Christ Jesus took upon Himself a mortal body 
of flesh. Had Christ Jesus suffered in the form 
of God, through mental processes only, mankind 
could never have realized the atonement. G-od 
desired not only to make an atonement for sin, but 
also to so manifestly demonstrate the fact that 
such an atonement had been made, that all men 
everywhere should be forced to a realization of it. 

The inviolable law of the universe is that sin 
bringeth forth death. 

That the sins of the untold millions of the hu- 
man race might claim their toll of death, and yet 
that it might be possible for the sinner to obtain 
life everlasting; God took upon Himself the form 
of man, who had sinned, and in that form offered 
Himself upon the cross of Calvary as an atone- 
ment for man's sin. 

Christ Jesus, being the conscious realm of the 
mind of God, had an infinite capacity for pain. 
He tasted death for every man. Heb. 2 :9. He not 
only bore our sins, but our sicknesses as well. 
"His own self bare our sins in His own body on 
the tree. ' ' I Pet. 2 :24. < ' Himself took our infirmi- 
ties, and bare our sicknesses." Mat. 8:17. "For 
this cause many are weak and sickly among you, 
and many sleep (or die)." I Cor. XI.-30. For what 



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cause! "Not discerning the Lord's body." 29th. 
verse. Many believers in Christ Jesus, who have 
trusted in His atonement for sin; are weak and 
sickly and die, because they fail to realize that 
He made atonement for sickness just as certainly 
as He did for sin. 

He being "(rod, and His capacity for suffering 
being infinite, it was impossible for any amount of 
suffering to kill Him: therefore, when He had 
made full atonement for the sins of all men, who 
had ever lived, were living, or ever would live, 
He "yielded up the ghost." Mat. 27:50. By the 
exercise of the power that was in Him, He could 
at any moment have resisted andovercome all pain; 
and in the twinkling of an eye have changed His 
mortal body into an immortal one; thereby mak- 
ing it subject to neither pain nor death: but had 
He done so, every member of the human race 
would have been lost forever, without hope of 
redemption. Instead of resisting death, there- 
fore, He voluntarily sought it. He says, "I lay 
down My life, that I might take it again. No man 
taketh it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. 
I have power to lay it down, and I have power to 
take it again." John 10:17, 18. 

The modern New Thought teaching that the 
death of Christ Jesus, and the shedding of His 
blood, have no vital part in the plan of God for 
the salvation of men, is false in every particular; 
and antagonistic to all the teachings of Christ 
Jesus. Only through the merits of His atonement 
can any man possibly be saved. How can men 



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hope for salvation through the righteousness of 
the fleshly mind, when God Himself has told us 
that ' ' Except a man be born again, he cannot see 
the Kingdom of God." John 3:3. "If we say that 
we have no sin, (as do Christian Scientists, for in- 
stance) we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not 
in us. If we say that we have not sinned, we make 
Him (God) a liar, and His Word is not in us. If 
we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to for- 
give us our sins, and to cleanse us from all un- 
righteousness." I John 1:8-10. In the same con- 
nection the one remedy for sin is distinctly set 
forth. "The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleans- 
eth us from all sin." I John 1:7. "Ye were not 
redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and 
gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of 
a lamb without blemish and without spot: who 
verily was foreordained before the foundation of 
the world, but was manifest in these last times for 
you, who by Him do believe in God." I Pet. 1:18- 
21. Peter realized that it was possible to believe 
in God only through Christ Jesus; who is the only 
manifestation or revelation of God; being tlie con- 
scious realm of the mind of God. 

The eternal, invisible, Father-Mother God, the 
subconscious and superconscious realms of the 
mind of God, created all things, upholds and sus- 
tains all things, bestows all gifts to mankind, and 
brings salvation and eternal life unto men, only 
through Christ Jesus, the conscious realm. 

Access to the Father and to the eternal Spirit, 
can be had only through Christ Jesus, the con- 



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scious realm. Eph. 2:18; 3:12. Eom. 5:1, 2. Eph. 
1:5-7. 

No lawyer would dare to alter the exact word- 
ing of a supreme court decision. The statements 
of Christ Jesus and His inspired prophets and 
apostles, are the decisions of the supreme court of 
the universe. 

God never meant His words to be interpreted ! 
He meant them to be believed and accepted just 
as He uttered them. How dare any man alter the 
exact wording of the decisions of the supreme 
court of the universe? 



Chapter VII. 

THE FATHER, THE SUBCONSCIOUS REALM 
OF THE MIND OF GOD. 

"God created man in His own image." Gen. 
1:27. 

The subconscious realm of the mind of God, is 
the counterpart of the subconscious realm of the 
oiind of man: and is therefore the life controlling 
jentre of the mind of God; the seat of intuition, 
memory, affection, emotion, belief, conscience, 
imagination, inspiration and genius. 

God the Father, the subconscious realm of the 
miwd of God, has chosen to carry on all His work- 
ings in connection with things material, through 
Christ Jesus, the conscious realm; and all His 



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workings in connection with things spiritual, 
through the Holy Spirit, the superconscious realm. 

Just as the conscious and subconscious realms 
of the mind of a man are one mind, so the con- 
scious and subconscious realms of the mind of 
God are one mind: and just as the subconscious 
realm of the mind of a man is greater than the 
conscious realm, so the subconscious realm of the 
mind of God is greater than the conscious realm. 

Thus it is absolutely true that Christ Jesus and 
the Father are one (one mind); and at the same 
time the Father is greater than Christ Jesus. 

This explains the statements of Christ Jesus 
when He says, "I and My Father are one;" (John 
10:30) and "Mv Father is greater than I." John 
14:28. 

Thus also is it true that, "In the beginning was 
the Word, and the Word (Christ Jesus) was with 
God, and the Word was God." John 1:1. The 
Word, Christ Jesus, being the conscious realm, 
was with the eternal Father-Mother God, the sub- 
conscious and superconscious realms; and at the 
same time was God; that is, was a realm of the 
one Mind, God. 

All the words and works of Christ Jesus, were 
the words and works of the Father; because Christ 
Jesus did all of His thinking, speaking and work- 
ing subconsciously. 

God the Father, created all things; but He did 
so consciously; that is, through Christ Jesus, the 
conscious realm. "By whom also He made the 
worlds." Heb. 1:2. 



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Christ Jesus upholds and controls all things, 
but He does so subconsciously. ' ' Who being 
the brightness of His (the Father's) glory, and 
the express image of His (the Father's) person, 
and upholding all things by the Word of His (the 
Father's) power." Heb. 1:3. 

Christ Jesus said, "All power is given unto Me 
in heaven and in earth." Mat. 28:18.. This state- 
ment means that Christ Jesus, the conscious realm . 
of the mind of God, can at all times by suggestion 
control the infinite resources of the subconscious 
realm of the mind of God. 

Just as the subconscious realm of the mind of a 
man responds to the autosuggestions of the con- 
scious realm, so the subconscious realm of the 
mind of God responds to the autosuggestions of 
Christ Jesus, the conscious realm, only to an in- 
finitely greater degree. 

Just as the mind of man, though having three 
realms, has but one will, one reason, one judg- 
ment, one conscience etc., so the mind of God, 
though it has three realms, has but one will, one 
reason, one judgment, one conscience etc. 

God the Father, the subconscious realm, can 
reason only through the reason of the conscious 
realm; can judge only through the judgment of 
the conscious realm, and can will only through 
the will of the conscious realm. "The Father 
judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment 
unto the Son." John 5:22, 23. "This is the will 
of God in Christ Jesus concerning you." I Th. 
5:18. 



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Just as men, to a certain extent, see and know 
the conscious realms of the minds of other men, 
so they can see and know the conscious realm of 
the mind of God: but no man can ever see or 
know the subconscious and superconscious realms 
of the mind of God; except as the thoughts and 
feelings of these invisible realms are expressed 
through Christ Jesus, the conscious realm. 

God the Father, the subconscious realm, is 
"eternal, immortal, invisible;" "Who only hath 
immortality, dwelling in the light which no man 
can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor 
can see." I Tim. 1:17; 6:16. 

Just as the subconscious and superconscious 
realms of the mind of a man, can only come into 
contact with other beings and things material, 
through the functions of the conscious realm; so 
the subconscious and superconscious realms of the 
mind of God, can only come into contact with 
other beings and things material, through the 
functions of the conscious realm of the mind of 
God. Therefore the eternal Father-Mother God 
can never have any contact with other beings or 
things material, except through Christ Jesus; the 
only realm of the God mind which can possibly 
get into rapport, or contact, with any other being, 
or thing material. 

If the conscious realm of the mind of a man 
were robbed of its functions, there would be no 
possible method of contact or understanding be- 
tween the subconscious and superconscious realms 
of the man's mind, and other beings or things 



90 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

material. In the same maimer it is utterly im- 
possible for the subconscious and superconscious 
realms of the mind of God to have contact with, 
or understanding between, things material or oth- 
er beings ; except through the functions of Christ 
Jesus, the conscious realm of the mind of God. 

God the Father, therefore, can see men, hear 
men, sympathize with men, and work for men, 
only through Christ Jesus, the conscious realm. 

Christ Jesus, being God> has power in Himself 
to do marvellous things; but He has chosen to 
work subconsciously. He many times emphati- 
cally stated that His words, His doctrines, and 
His works were not His, but the Father's which 
sent Him. All ideas of the nature and character 
of God, are the merest conjecture, apart from the 
revelation and teachings of Jesus Christ. He dis- 
tinctly tells us, "No man knowetb who the Son 
is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the 
Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal Him." 
Luke 10:22. 

Christ Jesus said many things concerning the 
Father; and only through such words of revelation 
do we know who and what the Father is. 

"God is a Spirit." John 4:24. "The living 
Father. ' ' John 6 :57. ' ' Lord of heaven and earth. ' ' 
Mat. XI:25. "The Father hath life in Himself." 
John 5:26. "Father, I thank Thee that Thou hast 
heard Me." John XI:41. He can hear. "There 
came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art My 
beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." Mk. 
1:11. He can speak. "I say unto you, that in 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 91 

heaven their angels do always behold the face of 
My Father which is in heaven." Mat. 18:10. He 
has a face. Christ Jesus undoubtedly herein has 
reference to the face of the form of God. Christ 
Jesus "being in the form of God/' came forth 
from heaven and took upon Him the form of man. 
The form of God, is the form which the mind of 
God has indwelt ever since Christ, the conscious 
realm, was begotten. Just as the subconscious 
and superconscious realms of the mind of a man 
indwell a form of flesh, and yet remain invisible; 
so the Father and the Holy Spirit, the subcon- 
scious and superconscious realms of the mind of 
God, indwell the form of God, and yet remain 
invisible. The form of a human being is as much 
the form of the subconscious realm, as it is of the 
conscious realm; so the face of the form of God 
is as much the face of the Father, as it is the face 
of Christ Jesus. 

' ' God so loved the world, that He gave His only 
begotten Son." John 3:16. "As the Father hath 
loved Me, so have I loved you." John 15:9. "The 
Father Himself loveth you, because ye have loved 
Me, and have believed that I came out from God. ' ' 
John 16:27. God loves the sinner; He loves Christ 
Jesus ; and He has a peculiar love for the one who 
believes in and receives Christ Jesus. 

' ' righteous Father, the world hath not known 
Thee : but I have known Thee, and these have 
known that Thou hast sent Me." John 17:25. 

"0 Father, glorify Thou Me with Thine own 



92 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

self -with the glory which I had with Thee before 
the world was." John 17:5. 

"As the Father knoweth Me, even so know I 
the Father." John 10:15. 

"I proceeded forth and came from God; neither 
came I of Myself, but He sent Me." John 8:42. 

"I lay down My life, that I might take it again. 
No man taketh it from Me, but I lay it down of 
Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have 
power to take it again. This commandment have 
I received of My Father." John 10:17, 18. 

"The Father is in Me, and I in Him." John 
10:38. 

"Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the 
Father in Me." John 14:11. 

"As Thon, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee." 
John 17:21. 

"The Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the 
works." John 14:10. The Father worked con- 
sciously, through Christ Jesus the conscious 
realm; and Christ Jesus worked subconsciously, 
through the Father, the subconscious realm. 

"He that sent Me is with Me: the Father hath 
not left Me alone; for I do always those things 
that please Him." John 8:29. 

"The Father that sent Me beareth witness of 
Me." John 8:18. 

"God knoweth your hearts: for that which is 
highly esteemed among men is abomination in 
the sight of God." Luke 16:15. 

"Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, 
neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 93 

your heavenly Father feedeth them.'' Mat. 6:26. 

"Wherefore take no thought, saying, what shall 
we eat! or, what shall we drink! or, wherewithal 
shall we be clothed ! for your heavenly Father 
knoweth that ye have need of all these things." 
Mat. 6:31, 32. 

We never find the Lord Jesus talking any fool- 
ishness about the food and drink and clothes of 
men, being "mortal mind" delusions. He dis- 
tinctly states that our heavenly Father knoweth 
that we have need of all these things. God knows 
that the bodies and appetites of men are real. 

'■ Whatsoever I speak, even as the Father said 
unto Me, so I speak. ' ' John 12 :50. God the Father 
dictated every word that Christ Jesus uttered. 

"I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father 
hath taught Me, I speak these things. ' ' John 8 :28. 
The literal meaning of these words is, "on my 
own initiative, I do not one single thing: (ap' 
emautou poio ouden. Ouden, from ou, not, and 
en, the neuter of eis, meaning one) but as, or 
according as, (kathos) My Father hath taught 
Me, I speak these things. ' ' Nothing can be clear- 
er than the fact that Christ Jesus spoke every 
word, during His earthly ministry, subconscious- 
ly; and also did every work subconsciously. "I 
speak that which I have seen with My Father." 
John 8:38. "The truth which I have heard of 
God." John 8:40. "My doctrine is not Mine, but 
His that sent Me." John 7:16. 

"I will send unto you from the Father, the 
Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Fath- 



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er." John 15:26. It is very manifest, from the 
teachings of Christ Jesus, that any realm of the 
mind of God can at will project itself in any man- 
ner, or take npon itself any desired form: just as 
Christ Jesns, the conscious realm, came forth from 
God and took upon Himself the form of man. 

"Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father 
which is in heaven is perfect.' 7 Mat. 5:48. 

"Our Father which art in heaven.' ' Mat. 6:9. 

"Pray to thy Father which is in secret." Mat. 
6:6. 

''He that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by 
the throne of God." Mat. 23:22. The seat of His 
power and authority is in heaven. 

He is the Father of all who believe in Christ 
Jesus; but He is not the Father of those who do 
not believe in Christ Jesus. John 8:41-47. 

He can be worshipped only in spirit and in 
truth. John 4:24. 

This means that He can be worshipped only 
through the conscious and the superconscious 
realms of His mind. Christ Jesus, the conscious 
realm, is "the truth." John 14:6. The Spirit is 
the superconscious realm. An unregenerated man 
can come to God only through believing on the 
Lord Jesus Christ; and being regenerated by the 
operation of the Holy Spirit. The believer can 
worship God only in the name of the Lord Jesus 
Christ, and only when in harmony or rapport with 
the Holy Spirit. No believer can worship God 
while he has unconfessed sin upon his soul; or 
while he has any impure, unkind, or unforgiving 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 95 

thought. Only when the inmost desires of a be- 
liever are in perfect accord with the will of Christ 
Jesus, can the believer worship God. Few believ- 
ers ever know what real worship is. Prayer which 
is occupied with wants, is not worship. Confess- 
ing of sins, is not worship. Praise which is occu- 
pied with anything but God Himself, is not wor- 
ship. The place to get rid of sins is at the altar; 
and the place to wash is at the laver; by "wash- 
ing of water by the Word." Eph. 5:26. The holy 
place only is for worship. Outside all goes up to 
God. Inside the holy place, all comes down from 
God. We worship God only when our minds are 
absolutely withdrawn from self and selfish inter- 
ests; and altogether centered upon, and occupied 
with God. We go into the holy place to worship; 
and come out to serve. We must withdraw from 
the rush of work, be it worldly or religious, ere we 
can learn to worship. I have known preachers to 
be so occupied with the study of the Bible, gath- 
ering together arguments and passages of Scrip- 
ture to quote in controversies, as to forget all 
about worshipping God. Fluency and eloquence 
in prayers, are oft times abomination. It is only 
"the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man" 
that ' i availeth much,. ' ' Jas. 5 :16. Our prayers are 
effectual and fervent, only when the Holy Spirit 
in us prays through us. Take time to worship! 
Take time to be holy! 

God the Father, whom Christ Jesus revealed 
unto men, is one realm of the one God mind; the 
three realms of which together make complete 



S6 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

one living, thinking, loving, acting personality. 

He is invisible, in secret, in heaven; and yet He 
is suggestible, and responds to the prayers, or 
suggestions, of men, when the prayers or sugges- 
tions are in accord with the will of Christ Jesus. 

He is not an indefinite, intangible, impersonal 
principle; or something scattered throughout the 
universe like electricity or ether. He is just what 
Christ Jesus was and is; for Christ Jesus was God 
manifest in the flesh. 

Christ Jesus always spoke of the Father as be- 
ing in Him, and ' ' in heaven. ' ' 

Just before His crucifixion He said, "I go to 
prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare 
a place for you, I will come again, and receive you 
unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be 
also. In My Father's house are many mansions: 
if it were not so, I would have told you." John 
14:2, 3. 

Christ Jesus had absolute command of the lan- 
guage in which He spoke. He knew that untold 
millions of men would read His words; and that 
the fate of their souls for eternity depended upon 
their understanding them. Therefore He spoke 
as simply and plainly as possible; and meant ex- 
actly what He said. He tells us that every iden- 
tical word He uttered was dictated to Him by His 
Father; so that all the combined wisdom and 
knowledge of the Godhead was behind the utter- 
ance of every word. Therefore when He says 
that He has gone to prepare a place for those who 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 97 

believe in Him, He means "a place" and not a 
condition. 

The utterances of Christ Jesus and of His in- 
spired prophets and apostles, are the decisions of 
the supreme court of the universe; and God de- 
mands that they be accepted and believed just as 
they were spoken. 

Christ Jesus, the conscious realm of the mind of 
God, declares, "He that rejecteth Me, and receiv- 
eth not My words, hath one that judgeth him: 
the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge 
him in the last day." John 12:48. 



Chapter VIII. 

THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE SUPERCONSCIOUS 
REALM OF THE MIND OF GOD. 

The superconscious realm of the mind of God, 
spoken of in the Bible as "The Holy Spirit," or 
''The Holy Ghost," is the seat of spirituality; the 
realm through which is accomplished all the spir- 
itual work of God. 

Christ Jesus, and the Father, the conscious and 
subconscious realms of the mind of God, do all 
spiritual work supefconsciously; that is, through 
the Holy Spirit. 

The Holy Spirit, is the superconscious realm of 
the one Mind, God; and together with Christ 
Jesus, the conscious realm, and the Father, the 



98 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

subconscious realm, makes complete one living, 
thinking, loving, acting personality. 

t i There are three that bear record in heaven, 
the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and 
these three are one." I John 5:7. 

In the light of the teachings of Christ Jesus 
and His inspired apostles, the claims of certain 
teachers that the Holy Spirit is an influence mere- 
ly, are shown to be utterly erroneous; and the 
claim of Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, that the Holy 
Spirit is Christian Science, is shown to be almost, 
if not altogether, blasphemous. 

The Holy Spirit, the superconscious realm of 
the mind of God, is the eternal Mother God. 

In the eternity before "time" was, the one 
Mind, God, consisted of two, realms: the Father, 
the subconscious; and the Holy Spirit, the super- 
conscious. These two realms were one mind: the 
eternal, immortal, invisible, Father-Mother God. 
The Father-Mother God begat Christ; and the two 
realm Mind was made to embrace three realms. 

These are not three minds, but three realms of 
the one Mind. 

This one Mind is absolutely complete, being 
male and female in one. For this reason the Holy 
Spirit, the mother God, the spiritual realm of the 
one Mind,. God; is always spoken of as "He:" just 
as when God created man, He created the male 
and female at the same time, in one body. <l In the 
day that God created man, in the likeness of God 
made He him; male and female created He them; 
and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 99 

the day when they were created." Gen. 5:1, 2. 
The male and female in man were eventually 
separated; a distinctly separate body being given 
to each: but the male and female in God have 
never been separated. The eternal Father-Moth- 
er God, the subconscious and superconscious 
realms of the mind of God, have always been and 
always shall be invisible; except to Christ Jesus, 
the conscious realm. 

At the baptism of Christ Jesus, "He saw the 
Spirit of God descending like a dove (not in the 
form of a dove, but in the manner in which a dove 
might descend) and lighting upon Him." Matt. 
3 :16. Christ Jesus only saw the Holy Spirit. The 
teaching that the Holy Spirit has appeared unto 
men in the form of a dove, or in the form of cloven 
tongues of fire; is utterly erroneous. The disci- 
ples at Pentecost heard the sound as of a rushing 
mighty wind, and saw a cloven tongue of fire on 
the head of each; but the fire was not the Holy 
Spirit. "They were all filled with the Holy 
Ghost. ' ' Ac. 2 -A. John the Baptist said, ' ' I indeed 
baptize you with water; but one mightier than I 
cometh : He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost 
and with fire. ' ' Luke 3 :16. The fire was not the 
Holy Ghost. 

The Father-Mother God only is eternal; that is 
always has been and always will be. Christ was 
begotten: there was a time when He did not exist. 
The Father-Mother God, male and female in one, 
is, "The King, eternal, immortal, invisible, the 
only wise God. The blessed and only Potentate, 



100 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

the King of kings, and Lord of lords; who only 
hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no 
man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, 
nor can see." I Tim. 1:17; 6:15, 16. All the attri- 
butes of God have from eternity been in the Fath- 
er-Mother God. Christ Jesns, the conscious realm 
of the one Mind, God, has had all the attributes 
of God which are in Him given unto Him, by the 
eternal, invisible^ Father-Mother God which begat 
Him. 

That the Holy Spirit, the superconscious realm 
of the mind of God, is a living, thinking, acting, 
loving personality, is clear in the following 
texts : — 

He has spoken. ' ' The Spirit said unto Philip, Go 
near, and join thyself to this chariot.' ' Ac. 
8:29. 

He can be grieved. ' ' Grieve not the Holy Spirit 
of God." Eph. 4:30. 

He works. ' i The Spirit of the Lord caught away 
Philip." Ac. 8:39. 

He imparts life. "Except a man be born of the 
Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of 
God." John 3:5. 

He bears record in heaven. "There are three 
that bear record in heaven, the Father, the 
Word and the Holy Ghost: and these three 
are one." I John 5:7. 

He is a witnesser to Jesus. ''We are His wit- 
nesses of these things ; and so is also the Holy 
Ghost." Ac. 5:32. 

He makes intercession for the believers. "We 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 101 

know not what we should pray for as we 
ought: but the Spirit maketh intercession for 
us.'' Rom. 8:26. 

He groans. "With groanings which cannot be 
uttered." Eom. 8:26. 

He superintends christian work. "The Holy 
Ghost said, Separate Me Barnabas and Saul 
for the work whereunto I have called them. 
So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, 
departed unto Seleucia." Ac. 13:2, 4. 

He speaks all languages and controls the 
tongues of the believers. "They were all 
filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak 
with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them 
utterance." Ac. 2:4. 

He is full of power. "Ye. shall receive power, 
after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you. ' ' 
Ac. 1:8. Rom. 15:13. 

He inspires love, joy, peace etc, Gal. 5:22. 

He imparts love. "The love of God is shed 
abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost." 
Rom. 5:5. 

He enfolds the kingdom of God. "The king- 
dom of God is not meat and drink; but righ- 
teousness, and peace, and jov in the Holy- 
Ghost." Rom. 14:17. 

He has been seen by Christ Jesus. "He saw the 
Spirit of God descending." Mat. 3:16. 

He is the Comforter. ' ' But when the Comforter 
is come, whom I will send unto you from the 
Father, even the Spirit of truth, which pro- 
ceedeth from the Father, He shall testify of 



102 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

Me." John 15:26. "Walking in the fear of 
the Lord, and in the comfort of the 4 Holy 
Ghost." Ac. 9:31. 
He is the believer's teacher. "The Holy Ghost 
shall teach yon what ye ought to say. ' ' Luke 
12:12. 
He reveals the truth of God to believers. "The 
things of God knoweth no man, bnt the Spirit 
of God. God hath revealed them nnto ns by 
His Spirit." I Cor. 2:10, 11. 
He communes with believers. 2 Cor. 13 :14. 
He reproves the world of sin. "When He is 
come, He will reprove the world of sin, and 
of righteousness, and of judgment." John 
16:8. 
He can be received through faith. Gal. 3 :14. 
He makes the bodies of believers His temple. 
"Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, 
and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" 
I Cor. 3:16. "Know ye not that your body 
is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in 
you?" I Cor. 6:19. 
He sanctifies the gifts of believers. Eom. 15:16. 
He is given to the believers who pray the Father 

for Him. Luke 11:13. 
He quickened Christ Jesus. I Pet. 3 :18. 
Christ Jesus always spoke of Him as a person. 
Seven times in one text, Christ Jesus men- 
tions His personality. "When He, the Spirit 
of truth is come, He will guide you into all 
truth: for He shall not speak of Himself; but 
whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak : 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 103 

and He will show yon things to come. ' ' John 
16:13. 

That the Holy. Spirit, the superconscious realm 
of the mind of. God, the Mother God, is the most 
sacred realm of the Godhead, is made manifest in 
the following texts: — 

"All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be 
forgiven nnto men: bnt the blasphemy against 
the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven nnto men. 
And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son 
of man, it shall be forgiven him: Bnt whosoever 
speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not 
be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither 
in the world to come." Mat. 12:31, 32. 

"Verily I say nnto yon, All sins shall be for- 
given unto the sons of men, and blasphemies 
wherewithsoever they shall blaspheme: bnt he 
that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost 
hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eter- 
nal damnation." Mk. 3:28, 29. (Revised ver- 
sion, "Guilty of an eternal sin.") 

The teaching herein is that one may blaspheme 
the Father or the Son, the conscious and subcon- 
scious realms of the mind of God, and be forgiven; 
but neither the Father nor the Son will permit 
any man to blaspheme the Holy Ghost, the Mother 
God, the superconscious or spiritual realm of the 
mind of God. 

The Bible teaches that the sin, or blasphemy 
against the Holy Ghost, can be committed in two 
ways. 



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1st. Blaspheming the Holy Spirit in attribut- 
ing the works of the Holy Spirit to devils. 

2nd. Grieving the Holy Spirit, by continuing 
to refuse to accept the suggestion of God to ' ' be- 
lieve on the Lord Jesus Christ." "And the Lord 
said. My Spirit shall not always strive with man. ' ' 
Gen. 6:3. 

The heinousness of the crime of Ananias, was 
not that he lied; for millions of other men have 
lied and still continued to live: but Ananias lied 
1 ' to the Holy Ghost. " Ac. 5 :3. 

That which caused Peter to use the words "if 
perhaps" when addressing Simon the sorcerer, 
was not because Simon desired to buy influence 
with his fellow men through a false profession in 
the church; but because Simon had thought to 
buy the power to command the Holy Ghost. Ac. 
8:18-24. 

For centuries the Jews brought their sacrifices 
to the altars of God ; and through the shedding of 
the blood of the same, received forgiveness of sins, 
from year to year. The Jewish altar of sacrifice 
was a type of the cross of Jesus Christ, on which 
He, the Lamb of God, was slain; and the sacri- 
fices were accepted by God only because they 
were types of the sacrificial Lamb of God : but 
after the Lamb of God, Christ Jesus, had been 
slain, God decreed that there should be no other 
sacrifice for sin. Man henceforth, be he Jew or 
Gentile, can approach unto God's holy of holies 
only through the merits of the atoning blood of 
Christ Jesus, the Lamb of God. Even Christ 



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Jesus Himself, after He had taken the sins of 
men upon Him, could approach unto the holy of 
holies only through the merits of His own shed 
blood. 

"Neither by the blood of goats and calves but 
by His own blood He (Christ Jesus) entered in 
once into the holy place, having obtained eternal 
redemption for us. For if the blood of bulls and 
goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the 
unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 
.how much more shall the blood of Christ, who 
through the eternal Spirit offered Himself with- 
out spot to God, purge your conscience from dead 
works to serve the living God?" Heb. 9:12-14. 
' i We are sanctified through the offering of the 
body of Jesus Christ once for all." Heb. 10:10. 
Christ Jesus was offered "to bear the sins of 
many." Heb. 9:28. 

"If we sin wilfully after that we have received 
the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no 
more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful look- 
ing for of judgment and fiery indignation, which 
shall devour the adversaries. He that despised 
Moses ' law died without mercy under two or three 
witnesses: of how much sorer punishment, sup- 
pose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath 
trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath 
counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he 
was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done 
despite unto the Spirit of grace." Heb. 10:26-29. 

This scripture is much misunderstood. It has 



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absolutely no reference whatever to the ordinary 
backslider. 

The inspired author of this epistle wrote from 
the standpoint of a Hebrew, to the Hebrews. "If 
we (Hebrews) sin wilfully." In what manner! 
If the Hebrews, who for centuries trusted to the 
atoning merit of the blood of sacrifices as they 
were offered to God upon His altars, continued to 
so trust in the blood of goats, bulls, calves etc., 
in spite of the fact that the real Lamb of God, 
of whom all the Old Testament sacrifices were but 
types, had been offered and His blood shed; then 
they would learn to their sorrow that the blood 
of the sacrifices in which they continued to trust, 
was worthless blood, containing no atoning merit 
whatever: and instead of being forgiven because 
of their sin offerings, they would but be insulting 
and disobeying God; and would be forever con- 
demned for rejecting the one only sacrifice for sin, 
upon which God would look with any favor. They 
were given to understand, most emphatically, that 
when they rejected Jesus Christ and the atone- 
ment which He made on Calvary's cross, they 
trampled under foot the Son of God, counted the 
blood of the Covenant an unholy thing-, and did 
despite unto the Spirit of grace. 

"Despite unto the Spirit of grace." The word 
' ' despite ' ' means ' ' extreme contempt. ' ' The man 
who scoffs at and rejects the blood of Jesus Christ, 
as his only hope and means of salvation from sin, 
expresses supreme contempt for the Holy Spirit 
of God; and thereby places himself in the awful 



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position where, "He hath never forgiveness, but 
is in danger of eternal damnation" or "of an 
eternal sin." 



Chapter IX. 

THE ORIGIN OF EVIL, SIN, DISEASE AND 
DEATH. 

This is a day of specialists. Men everywhere 
have come to realize that the scope of knowledge 
is too vast to enable one man, in one life time, to 
gain even a smattering of all its branches. 

The astronomer now specializes in astronomy, 
the geologist in geology, the electrician in elec- 
tricity, the mechanic in machinery, the surgeon 
in surgery, and the lawyer in law. 

The opinion of a lawyer who does not know the 
law, is not only a worthless bnt a dangerous thing; 
and the opinion of a minister of the gospel who 
does not know the gospel, is a more worthless and 
a more dangerous thing. 

Few men, who have never studied law, would 
venture opinions upon intricate points of law; but 
men everywhere, who have never studied the 
Bible, air their dangerous and worthless opinions 
upon every opportunity. 

The Bible contains all the decisions of the su- 
preme court of the universe, in regard to religious 
truth. 



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In this day of specialists, a man is presumptu- 
ous indeed, when possessing not even a smattering 
of knowledge along a certain line, he ignores all 
the findings of the specialists, and asserts that his 
opinion represents the sum total of all knowledge 
along that line. 

The author of this book has no desire to waste 
time and energy in fruitless arguments with men 
and women who have the colossal gall to consider 
themselves better authorities upon the eternal 
truths of Jehovah, than Christ Jesus, the conscious 
realm of the mind of God, and His inspired proph- 
ets and apostles. 

Such people are victims of fixed ideas of evil, 
and to that extent are insane: and little good 
comes from arguing with the insane. 

Supreme court decisions are not to be argued 
about: they are to be understood, believed and ac- 
cepted as finalities. 

Jesus Christ had complete mastery of the lan- 
guage in which He spoke, and He knew that the 
eternal destinies of untold millions of the human 
race depended upon their understanding the 
meaning of His words. He used the simplest 
words possible, and left no room for interpreta- 
tion. His words conveyed His exact meaning. It 
is infinitely more presumptuous for a man to dare 
to alter the exact wording of the utterances of 
Jesus Christ, than it would be for a lawyer to alter 
the exact wording of a supreme court decision. 

Mistakes have been made by the translators of 
the original words of Jesus Christ, and His proph- 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 109 

ets and apostles, and such mistakes should be 
rectified: but when their utterances have been 
translated in the most literal manner possible, 
then we should abide by the teachings set forth 
in those literal translations; or else deny abso- 
lutely the supreme authority of Jesus Christ and 
His prophets and apostles. 

Christ Jesus, the conscious realm of the mind 
of God, had the right in Himself to have spoken 
with absolute authority; but He distinctly claims 
to have spoken all His words subconsciously; 
thereby making God the Father responsible for 
His every utterance. 

The prophets and apostles claimed that they 
spake as they were moved, or inspired, by the 
Holy Ghost, the superconscious realm of the mind 
of God. 

Therefore Christ Jesus, and His prophets and 
apostles together, make the Godhead, or Trinity, 
fully responsible for .their teachings. 

When men set aside the words of Christ Jesus 
and His prophets and apostles, they set God 
aside. 

The premise upon which this book is written is : 

The Bible is the inspired Word of the living 
God; and the utterances of Jesus Christ and His 
prophets and apostles recorded therein, constitute 
the final decisions of the supreme court of the uni- 
verse, in regard to religious truth. 

Upon this premise, and this premise only, after 
twenty five years of specialized study of the Bible 
as the Word of God, does the author of this book 



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proceed to set forth the truth of God concerning, 
"The Origin of Evil, Sin, Disease and Death." 

In the eternity before "time" began, before 
anything material in the universe had been cre- 
ated, and before any other being of any nature 
whatsoever, .out side of the eternal, immortal, in- 
visible, Father-Mother God, existed, Christ was 
begotten. 

The one Mind, God, formerly divided into two 
realms: the Father, the subconscious and the Holy 
Spirit (the Mother God) the superconscious ; was, 
after Christ was begotten, made to embrace three 
realms: the Father, the subconscious; the Holy 
Spirit, the superconscious; and Christ, the con- 
scious. 

Concerning Christ it is written, "He is before 
all things, and by Him all things consist." Col. 
1:17. 

The word "consist" means "to be composed 
of." Literally, "All things were composed of, or 
came out of Christ." "All things that are in 
heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invis- 
ible, whether thrones, or dominions, or principali- 
ties, or powers: all things were created by Him, 
and for Him." Col. 1:16. Christ, therefore, cre- 
ated the angels. 

One of the first and greatest of the angels, was 
Lucifer ' ' son of the morning. ' ' Lucifer was given 
a certain principality, in which he was prince; 
and under his authority were -many angels. 

Angels are servants of God, but not sons. They 



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are the creation of God; but are not partakers of 
the nature of God. 

Just before the dawning of the period called 
"time," Christ determined to create a race to be 
known as "man;" to whom should be given the 
capacity to be partakers of the life and nature of 
God. He also determined to create a planet to be 
known as "earth," wherein man should have do- 
minion. 

The thought that a race was to be created "in 
the image of God," with a capacity for the life 
and nature of God, seems to have made Lucifer 
insanely jealous; and he rebelled against God: and 
determined that he would murder the bodies and 
souls of men, if God carried out His plan to create 
them. 

Lucifer immediately became the Adversary, or 
Satan; and the angels of his principality, who 
had been under his authority, joined him in his 
rebellion. 

Jude writes of them, as, i i The angels which kept 
not their first estate, but left their own principal- 
ity." Jude 6 E. V, 

Christ Jesus declares, "I beheld Satan as light- 
ning fall from heaven. ' ' Luke 10 :18. 

Isaiah writes, ' ' How are thou fallen from heav- 
en, Lucifer, son of the morning! For thou hast 
said in thine heart, (literally mind) I will ascend 
into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars 
of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the 
congregation, in the sides of the north: I will be 
like the Most High." Isa. 14:12-14. 



112 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

John writes, "And there was war in heaven: 
Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; 
and the dragon fought and his angels, and pre- 
vailed not; neither was their place found any more 
in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, 
that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, 
which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out 
into the earth, and his angels were cast out with 
him." Eev. 12:7-9. 

The time of Satan's rebellion against God was 
at the commencement of the creation of the earth. 

"In the beginning (of "time") God created the 
heaven and the earth." Gen. 1:1. 

God the Father, addressing Christ, declared, 
' * Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foun- 
dation of the earth." Heb. 1:10. 

John writes, ' ' The devil sinneth from the begin- 
ning." I John 3:8. 

Christ said, concerning Satan, "He was a mur- 
derer from the beginning." John 8:44. 

Satan was as great, if not greater, than Michael 
the archangel, for it is recorded, "Michael, the 
archangel, when contending with the devil about 
the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a 
railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke 
thee." Jude 9. 

Christ had determined to make man "in the 
image of God;" not merely innocent, but Godlike 
with a capacity for holiness. A being is innocent 
when he has no knowledge of evil; but he is holy 
when, having knowledge of both good and evil, 
he wills always to do good and to eschew evil; and 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 113 

by the almighty power of good overcomes evil. 

To speak of God as holy, and at the same time 
declare that He has no knowledge of evil, is utter- 
ly irrational. It was the Lord God Himself who 
said, "Behold the man is become as one of Us, 
(the Trinity) to know good and evil." Gen. 3:22. 

That Christ knew, from the moment Satan de- 
termined to destroy man, that man would be 
tempted and that man would fall; and that He 
would have to die to make the redemption of man 
possible; is made clear in the text which refers to 
Christ as the Lamb of God ' l slain from the foun- 
dation of the world." Kev. 13:8. 

It was impossible for God to alter His plan re- 
garding the creation of man, thereby permitting 
Satan to intimidate Him, without losing His 
character. 

"God created man in His own image." Gen. 
1:27. 

The Word of God does not make known to us 
the length of time which passed after the creation 
of man, until man was tempted and fell: neither 
are we told of the efforts which God doubtless 
made to save man from sin. 

Christ Jesus knew that His life would be the 
price of man's redemption, and certainly did all 
that could in honor be done, to keep man from 
falling. 

Satan tempted the woman. There is no record 
that he ever tempted the man. 

Eve yielded to the temptation, and then pro- 
ceeded to tempt her husband. Had Satan tempted 



114 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

Adam direct, he might have resisted the tempta- 
tion; but when the temptation came through the 
woman he loved, he fell. Adam knew his wife 
had disobeyed God; could see that she was dif- 
ferent; but his love for her was so great, that 
sooner than lose her, he too sinned against God. 
Adam's reason and judgment revolted against sin; 
but when the evil suggestion was made by his 
wife, he permitted the subconscious realm of his 
mind to retain the suggestion, because of his af- 
fection for her; and the subconscious realm react- 
ed upon the conscious realm, until he finally willed 
to commit the sin. 

Both Adam and Eve had power in the wills of 
the conscious realms of their minds, to have in- 
stantly rejected and uprooted any evil sugges- 
tion; but they failed to exercise their wills. 

Man was drawn away from God, not through 
the conscious but through the subconscious realm 
of his mind; and God has therefore willed that 
man must return to Him through the subconscious 
realm of his mind. The subconscious realm of the 
mind of man is many times referred to in the 
Word of God as "the heart;" as in the texts, 
"With the heart man believeth unto righteous- 
ness," (Rom. 10:10) and "as he thinketh in his 
heart, so is he." Prov. 23:7. 

Earthly knowledge, and "heady" philosophies, 
which are entirely in the conscious realms of the 
minds of men, have no part in the scheme of God's 
redemption of the human race. 

Until man sinned, all created beings had known 



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God only as the omnipotent, omniscient, omni- 
present and holy One; invisible except through 
Christ, the conscious realm; but when man sinned 
the whole character of God was revealed. When 
Satan and his angels sinned, Christ did not die for 
their redemption; but made war upon them and 
;•■ cast them out of heaven. Christ died for man 
because man was led into sin by another. He did 
not die for Satan and his angels because they 
were the originators of sin. 

From the moment that Satan determined to be 
the murderer of the human race, Christ deter- 
mined to be the Saviour. 

Knowing that men could not understand or 
comprehend Him, while He remained in the form 
of God, Christ Jesus humbled Himself and took 
upon Him the form of man. "The Word was 
made flesh and dwelt among us." John 1:14. 
"God was manifest in the flesh." I Tim. 3:16. 
The mind of God indwelt the human form which 
was born of the Virgin Mary: and the conception, 
or union of the God mind with the human form, 
was the work of the Holy Ghost. 

"Christ Jesus, being in the form of God, took 
upon Him the form of a servant, and was made 
in the likeness of men. ' ' Phil. 2 :5-7. He became 
known amongst men as "the man Christ Jesus." 
I Tim. 2:5. He was not a human being; but He 
was God manifest in the form of a human being; 
in the likeness of men. 

Ever since man sinned, the two great forces 
of the universe, one good and the other evil, have 



116 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

been battling for the control of the minds of men. 

Christ Jesus, the truth, and all the angels of 
God, are fighting against Satan, the lie, and his 
angels. 

The minds of men are suggestible; both to good 
and evil. 

God, being absolutely honorable, having made 
man a free moral agent, cannot force His sugges- 
tions of good upon the minds of men. 

Satan, being absolutely without honor, forces 
his suggestions of evil upon the minds of men at 
every possible opportunity. Were it not, there- 
fore, for the restraining power of God, Satan 
would long ago have hypnotized the entire human 
race; and so have completely controlled the minds 
of men. 

That Satan and his angels are living, thinking, 
acting, planning, revengeful, malicious spirits, 
each possessed of a mind separate and distinct 
from the mind of God, is absolutely undeniable, 
in the light of the teachings of the Word of God. 
To deny the malicious personality of Satan and 
his demons, is to deny the authenticity of Christ 
Jesus; and make God the author of evil. 

It is utterly irrational to speak of evil thoughts 
which have never been thought by an evil mind. 
Evil thoughts can only exist by having been 
thought; and evil thoughts can only be thought 
by an evil mind. Every sane man knows that 
millions of evil thoughts are thought every day. 
It is subterfuge of the flimsiest kind to ascribe all 
evil thinking to "mortal mind," and then declare 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 117 

that "mortal mind" exists only in the evil 
thoughts which have been thought by "mortal 
mind'' itself. If evil thoughts never existed ex- 
cept in "mortal mind,*' which itself never exist- 
ed; then evil thoughts never existed. To declare 
that evil does not exist and never has existed, is 
to declare that all sane men are insane; and that 
God the Father and Christ Jesus the Son are also 
insane; because God the Father gave His Son to 
die, and the Son took upon Him the form of man 
and did die, for no other purpose but to redeem 
men from the penalty and power of evil. 

If "mortal mind" never existed, then it is ab- 
surd to speak of it in any connection. If ' ■ mortal 
mind" ever has existed, or does exist, then it must 
of necessity have been created by Christ; because 
He created, "All things that are in heaven, and 
that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether 
thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or pow- 
ers : all things were created by Him, and for Him. ' ' 
Col. 1:16. 

If "mortal mind" does exist, and has always 
been evil, then Christ must have created it evil. 
If so then God is responsible for it. Such a dec- 
laration is preposterous! 

If "mortal mind" does exist, but was not evil 
when first created, then it has been made evil since 
by some evil mind. 

Christ Jesus and His prophets and apostles, 
teach most clearly that Satan and a host of angels, 
each of whom was a living personality, created 
by God in perfect purity, wilfully disobeyed and 



118 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

rebelled against God. They were east out of 
heaven and came to the earth; determined to de- 
stroy the human race, which God was to create in 
His own image. 

God never created evil. He created Satan and 
his demons; but when He created them they were 
sinless spirits, each being an absolutely free moral 
agent; with power to obey or disobey God. 

God never created discord. He made the laws 
of harmony; and all the tones which produce har- 
mony. Discord is created by the misuse of the 
tones of harmony. God is not chargeable with 
discord. 

God never made darkness. God made the laws 
of light; and all the rays of light, varying in in- 
tensity, from the least to the greatest. Darkness 
is the result of the absence of light. 

Discord is real. Darkness is unreal. Discord 
is something which is actually created, by the mis- 
use of the tones of harmony. Darkness is unreal- 
ity; for "God is light, and in Him is no darkness 
at all." I John 1:5. 

God made the laws of health ; and all the mental 
and physical health producing forces. These 
health producing forces if perverted, produce dis- 
ease and death. Disease and death are real; just 
as discord is real. God created neither disease 
nor death; but man, by the misuse of the health 
producing forces, himself creates disease and 
death: just as by the misuse of the tones of har- 
mony, he creates discord. 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 119 

God is no more chargeable with disease and 
death than He is with discord, 

God created water to quench the thirst of man 
and beast; and to sustain life in all grasses, herbs 
and trees. Under certain conditions, however, 
water will drown men. 

God created fire, only for good. God made fire 
so that it wonld cause pain to human beings when 
they came into close contact with it. Had God 
failed to put the pain producing quality into fire, 
little children attracted by its shining would have 
had their bodies consumed by it, without realizing 
the danger. 

With infinite wisdom and love God has created 
everything for the best good of His creatures. 

When man sinned he received the knowledge 
that Satan had promised him; but he lost God's 
knowledge. Knowledge obtained apart from God 
drove man away from God. The more knowledge 
a men gets today, apart from Jesus Christ, the 
farther away it drives him from God. Man lost 
God's knowledge while securing his own; and 
man can regain God's knowledge only by losing 
his own. Man brought himself under death to 
secure Satan's wisdom. Christ Jesus, the wisdom 
of God, brought Himself under death, to redeem 
man. 

Christ Jesus declared, "Verily I say unto you, 
whosoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God 
as a little child shall in no wise enter therein." 
Luke 18:17. 

How is it possible for a man to know the truth, 



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while lie ignores Jesus Christ who is "the truth?" 
How is it possible for a man to have the life of 
God, while he ignores Jesus Christ who is "the 
life?" 

It is a psychological impossibility for any man 

to establish contact with God; to know the way 
to God, to know the truth of God, or to be a par- 
taker in the life of God; while he ignores Christ 
Jesus, the conscious realm of the mind of God, 
who Himself is "the way, the truth, and the life," 
John 14:6. 

"The wisdom of this world is foolishness with 
God. If any man among you seemeth to be wise 
in this world, let him become a fool, that he may 
be wise." I Cor. 3:18, 19. "The natural man 
receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for 
they are foolishness unto him: neither can he 
know them, because they are spiritually dis- 
•cerned." I Cor. 2:14. "If any man teach other- 
wise, and consent not to wholesome words, even 
the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, he is proud." 
I Tim. 6:3, 4. The word "proud" means literally 
"a fool." The Greek word translated "proud," 
is "tetuphotai" the perfect passive of "tuphoo," 
which means ' l smoke. ' ' If you turn to your Greek 
dictionary, you will find the passive of this verb 
to mean "to be shrouded in conceit and folly." 
Thus it literally means to have one 's mind dulled, 
or stupefied, by the smoke of intellectual conceit, 
arrogance, or false knowledge, so that one comes 
to foolish conclusions; even imagining himself to 
be wiser than the Lord Jesus Christ, the conscious 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 121 

realm of the mind of Jehovah. In this sense snch 
a man becomes a fool. 

"See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as 
fools, but as wise. Understanding what the will 
of the Lord is." Eph. 5:15-17. 

The will of God is "in Christ Jesus." I Th. 5:18. 
God the Father said of Christ Jesus, "This is My 
beloved Son: hear Him." Luke 9:35. The Holy 
Spirit "maketh intercession for the saints accord- 
ing to the will of God." Eom. 8:27. 

Both the Father and the Holy Spirit, the sub- 
conscious and superconscious realms of the mind 
of God, are subject to the will of God which is in 
Christ Jesus. 

The will of Christ Jesus is that all men every- 
where shall believe what He and His inspired 
prophets and apostles have taught; and surrender 
the control of their minds to Him. 

Concerning Satan and his demons, Christ Jesus 
and His prophets and apostles have clearly 
taught : — 

They were at first sinless spirits; angels of God. 

They rebelled against God; and Satan purposed 
in his mind to destroy the human race, there- 
by becoming a murderer. John 8:44. 

All the angels of God are spirits. Heb. 1:13, 14. 

Satan talked with Eve ? (Gen. 3:1-4) and with 
Christ Jesus. Mat. 4:1-11. Satan even quoted 
scripture to Christ. 

Satan insulted God. Job 1:6-12; 2:1-7. 

Satan has power to cause cyclones, disease and 
death. 



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Satan lias power to kill the bodies of men, and 

after death cast their sonls into hell. Christ 

Jesns Himself declared this awful truth. 

Mat. 10:28. Luke 12:5. 
Satan was a prince amongst the angels of God 

before he sinned. Jnde 6 E. V. 
Satan thought himself powerful enongh to over- 
throw God and nsnrp His throne. Isa. 14: 

12-14. 
Satan fonght the angels of God. Kev. 12:7-9. 
Satan was cast ont of heaven. Lnke 10:18. 
Satan is still so great a personage that even the 

archangel dared not mock him. Jnde 9. 
Satan is still a prince and a ruler. Eph. 6:12. 
Satan is "the prince of this world." John 14: 

30; 16:11. 
Satan is the "prince of the power of the air, the 

spirit that now worketh in the children of 

disobedience." Eph. 2:2. 
Satan gives evil suggestions to the minds of 

God's people. I Chron. 21:1. 
Satan destroys the flesh of men. I Cor. 5 :5. 
Satan desired to have Peter. Luke 22:31. 
Satan hindered the apostle Paul. I Th. 2:18. 
Satan suggested the betrayal of Jesus Christ to 

Judas Iscariot. Luke 22:3. John 13:2. 
Satan suggested the lie which Ananias told. 

Acts 5:3. 
Satan is proud. I Tim. 3:6. 
Satan is malignant and subtile. I Pet. 5:8. 2 

Cor. XI :3. 
Satan is the wicked one. I John 2:14. 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 123 

Satan is "the God of this world;" whom the 
apostle Paul declares "hath blinded the 

minds of them which believe not, lest the 
light of the glorious, gospel of Christ shonld 
shine unto them." 2 Cor. 4;4. Satan blinds 
the minds of men by evil suggestions. 
Satan causes many physical diseased conditions 
in men. Christ Jesus liberated a woman 
whom Satan had bound for 18 years (Luke 
13:16); cured an epileptic by casting out a 
devil (Mat. 17:14-18) ; healed many that were 
vexed with unclean spirits (Luke 6:17, 18); 
healed one man who had fits by casting out a 
devil (Luke 4:33-36); healed a maniac by 
casting out an unclean spirit (Mark 5:2-13); 
healed a dumb man (Mat. 9:32, 33), and a 
dumb and blind man, by casting out of each 
the devil which had caused the trouble. Mat. 
12:22. 

The three suggestions which Satan most desires 
shall become fixed ideas in the minds of men, 
are: — 

1st. That God is not a living, thinking, acting, 

loving personality. 
2nd. That Satan and his demons are not living, 

thinking, acting, malicious personalities. 
3rd. That the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ 

has no vital part in the redemption of the 

human race. 
Every human mind in which one or more of 
these three devil's suggestions has found lodg- 
ment, is to that extent under the control of Satan. 



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The minds of hundreds of so-called ministers of 
Jesus Christ, are thus controlled by the sugges- 
tions of Satan. "And no marvel; for Satan him- 
self is transformed into an angel of light. There- 
fore it is no great thing if his ministers also be 
transformed as the ministers of righteousness. ' ' 
2 Cor. XI:14, 15, 

Many theological professors are ministers of 
Satan. Thousands of theological students enter 
theological seminaries strong in the faith of Jesus 
Christ, only to have their faith utterly shattered 
by the devil's wolves who masquerade in the 
sheep's clothing of theological professors. 

Many pastors are ministers of Satan. They 
obtain their ordinations by subscribing to the 
creeds of the churches and declaring their inten- 
tion to stand true to the Word of God; and then 
use their pulpits as lecture platforms from which, 
to tear to pieces the very creeds and doctrines 
which they were ordained to preach. 

If they were true or honest, they would instantly resign 
From any church whose doctrines they so constantly 

malign. 
They're under solemn contract to declare the Bible true; 
That contract makes their living, while the Bible they 

eschew. 

Their preaching sounds like Ingersoll's, but lacks his wit 

and spell; 
Supported, too, they are by those who love the Saviour 

well. 
'Tis sad this poor old sin-cursed earth has had to see 

the day 
When such as these dare openly on christian pulpits 

prey. 

As sheep they gained admission to the lambs they now 
assail; 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 125 

They're wolves, but far too lazy to go hunting on the 

trail; 
They're ministers of Satan, tearing vitals from all truth; 
Sowing seeds of dire disaster in the fertile minds of 

youth. 

They say that Jesus only knew what Jewish Rabbis 

taught; 
That therefore are the Saviour's words with error often 

fraught: 
They say He did not mean to lie; He taught the best 

He knew — 
He simply did not know as much as "higher critics" do. 

He only knew what Rabbis taught — yet, when but twelve 

years old, 
He made the Rabbis marvel at the wondrous truths He 

told. 
A greater He than Solomon, than any earth e'er knew; 
But still He did not know as much as "higher critics" do. 

Christ Jesus- came from heaven; was the Father's only 

Son; 
In glory with the Father was e'er this world had begun: 
As Word of God created all, if John's plain * record's 

true — 
But still He did not know as much as "higher critics" do. 

"The Wonderful," "The Counsellor," "The Mighty God" 

was He; 
"The Everlasting Father," though this truth they fail to 

see. 
He and the Father God are one; His words are God's 

and true. 
Thinkst thou He did not know as much as "higher critics" 

do? 

Ye followers of Jesus, know at once for what they stand! 
Don't let them run your schools and steal the pulpits of 

your land! 
They're pirates, flying Satan's flag, and ruled by Satan's 

rod ! 
They're anarchists and traitors 'gainst the Kingdom of 

our God! 



Chapter X. 
THE POWEE OF SUGGESTION. 

The subconscious realm of the mind of man is 
suggestible; and being devoid of reason and judg- 
ment, accepts every statement made to it at face 
value, whether the statement be true or false. 
If it were not for the reason, judgment and will 
of the conscious realm, man would be completely 
governed by suggestion. 

Almost every look, thought, word and act is 
the result of suggestion or autosuggestion. 

Every function of the human mind, which has 
its seat in the subconscious realm, is subject to 
control through suggestion and autosuggestion. 

The functions of the subconscious realm are : 

The circulation of the blood. 

Respiration. 

Digestion. 

All involuntary muscular movements. 

Intuition. 

Conscience. 

Belief. 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 127 

Memory. 

Affection. 

Emotion. 

Imagination. 

Inspiration. 

Genius. 

All of these are subject to control through sug- 
gestion and autosuggestion. 

Under the power of a single suggestion, I have 
seen the blood recede from the arm of a hypno- 
tized man until apparently not one drop remained ; 
and then under the power of a counter suggestion 
have seen the blood rush back into the arm. 

The fact that the circulation of the blood is 
subject to the control of the subconscious realm 
of the mind, is a stupendous one indeed; since 
sickness would be an almost unheard of thing, if 
the circulation of the blood was at all times per- 
fect. Some one has said, "There is only one 
disease, congestion; and only one cure, circula- 
tion." 

Too much blood in the head causes sleepless- 
ness. To be able by the power of suggestion to 
direct the subconscious realm of the mind which 
controls the circulation of the blood, is, therefore, 
to be able to cure sleeplessness. 

Congestion of the blood, or lack of perfect cir- 
culation, is the cause of untold numbers of human 
ailments, ranging all' the way from headaches to 
cancers. 

To be able, therefore, to control the circulation 



128 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

of the blood, is to be able to prevent and cure 
these many ailments. 

The subconscious realm also controls digestion. 
A single evil suggestion, causing anger or worry, 
will interfere with the work of digestion. 

Prominent medical specialists have gone so far 
as to declare that appendicitis and other intestinal 
diseases are almost entirely caused by . worry, 
anger, malice and gloom. 

Hypnotists have undeniably demonstrated that 
the subconscious realm of the mind experiences 
no physical pain • and can be made to suffer only 
through suggestion; which process is purely men- 
tal. 

So long as the conscious realm of the mind of 
an individual is under hypnotic control, the sub- 
conscious realm can be made to believe anything, 
through the power of suggestion. I once saw an 
old bachelor hypnotized. He was told that he 
was the husband of a most beautiful lady and 
the father of two children. He believed it. Sud- 
denly the hypnotist exclaimed, "I have terrible 
news for you. Your wife and children are dead 
and are buried right here in this grave." He 
pointed to the floor as he spoke. The old bachelor 
looked dazed for an instant and. then threw him- 
self upon the imaginary grave with one of the 
most heartbroken cries I ever heard; and sobbed 
pitifully. Suddenly the hypnotist snapped his 
fingers and commanded him to wake up. His cry- 
ing ceased instantly, and he looked around with a 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 129 

puzzled expression on his face, wondering why 
he was on the floor. 

I have seen men under hypnosis made to suffer 
intensely from toothache, earache, headache etc., 
and then at a single suggestion be perfectly re- 
lieved. 

I have seen hypnotists run needles through the 
fingers and tongues of men whom they had hyp- 
notized, and then after giving them the sugges- 
tion that they would feel no pain as the result of 
the treatment, awaken them; and the men who 
had been thus treated claimed to have felt no pain. 

I saw one hypnotist, who weighed at least one 
hundred and eighty pounds, stand upon the stom- 
ach of a young lad whom he had hypnotized ; after 
he had made the body rigid and suspended it by 
placing the head upon one chair and the heels 
upon another chair. 

A lecturer, in an eastern city in the United 
States, manifested the power of suggestion, by 
uncorking a bottle in the presence of five thous- 
and people, and pouring a few drops of liquid 
therefrom upon his handkerchief ; at the same time 
requesting every individual in the audience to 
raise a hand the instaitt the odor of peppermint 
was discernible. In a few moments about three 
thousand people raised their hands. "That's 
wonderful," exclaimed the lecturer; "especially 
since this bottle contains nothing but water." 

The test proved that three thousand out of five 
thousand people in that audience were amenable 
to that suggestion. 



130 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

A gentleman, being unable to sleep because of 
the lack of fresh air, after endeavoring in vain to 
open a window, broke a pane of glass. He then 
retired and slept peacefully. In the morning he 
fonnd to his amazement that he had broken the 
glass in the bookcase; and not the window pane 
as he had supposed. 

By the breaking of the glass he had given him- 
self the suggestion that he was to have a suffi- 
ciency of fresh air. 

What mother has not had the experience of 
being tired to the verge of collapse, when the 
sudden serious illness of a child has forced a 
complete forgetfulness of self; and brought a real- 
ization of the reserve forces within her nature! 
Weakness was overcome by the stronger sugges- 
tion of a child's need. 

What child has not felt his hurts healed when 
mother or father or friend u kissed the place to 
make it well?" 

Men and women are but grown up children ; and 
suggestion holds the same curative healing power 
for them now as it did in the days of their child- 
hood, if they were but childlike enough to receive 
it. 

Where is the boy whose headache, earache, or 
toothache would not be instantly healed by the 
suggestion of a circus parade? 

Baseball players use the power of suggestion 
when they place men near the first and third 
bases, to shout defiance to the opposing teams, 
and encourage the members of their own teams. 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 131 

Partisan onlookers or "rooters" in the grand- 
stands, also make nse of the power of suggestion, 
when they alternately ridicnle and cheer. 

All successful salesmen use the power of sug- 
gestion. This is the reason why thousands of 
scare crow hats are sold every year to impression- 
able women. They seat themselves before the mir- 
rors and the trying on process begins. Hat after 
hat is brought, each a little more ridiculous than 
the other. Finally, with an exclamation of delight, 
the sales lady places upon the would be victim's 
head a "creation" more outlandish than any of 
the others, and then gazes in rapt admiration, as 
with an. imitation French shrug she ejaculates, 
"It is so chic! madame is a perfect dream!" The 
impressionable woman, unable to resist the flat- 
tering suggestion, buys the hat. 

Few physicians would care to admit how fre- 
quently they administer bread or sugar pills, or 
other equally powerful so-called medicines. They 
realize many times that real medicines are not re- 
quired, and if administered would be harmful. 
They also realize, however, that many patients 
resent being told that there is nothing the matter 
with them except the holding of a health destroy- 
ing suggestion or autosuggestion. To overcome 
the wrong thinking of the patient, and at the 
same time preserve professional dignity, the phy- 
sician leaves . some harmless remedy, with most 
careful instructions for its taking; at the same 
time dropping the suggestion that the pain will 
be completely relieved, or the trouble be complete- 



132 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

ly overcome, after a certain length of time. 

That which is wrong because of wrong think- 
ing, can only be made right by right thinking. 
Nervous disorders and hysterical conditions which 
spring from fear and worry, are not amenable to 
medical treatment, unless the medicines are made 
the means of the reception of proper suggestions; 
and then the suggestions cure, and not the medi- 
cines. 

When physical ailments are caused by organic 
conditions, right thinking alone may not heal; but 
nothing so aids nature and the physician, as a 
strong determination upon the part of the patient 
to get well. 

Fixed ideas of evil in the mind of the patient, 
oft times counteract to a great degree, the cura- 
tive forces of nature and of medicines. 

For instance, a patient gets a fixed idea that 
sleep has deserted him. He frequently and em- 
phatically autosuggests, " Sleep has left me! I 
can't sleep!" Every such autosuggestion makes 
it more impossible for sleep to come. The sub- 
conscious realm of the patient's mind, being de- 
void of reason and judgment, has no means of 
determining that the autosuggestion is false; and 
so accepts the statement at its face value; and 
proceeds to use all the power within it to produce 
a continued state of wakefulness. Such autosug- 
gestions of sleeplessness make even powerful 
opiates of no avail. In such cases kind emphatic 
suggestions of sleep would meet the patient's 
greatest need. If such a patient can be induced 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 133 

to autosuggest sleep, his insomnia will soon be a 
thing of the past. Let the patient say to himself, 
frequently and emphatically, "I am not going to 
lie awake any longer. Subconscious realm of my 
mind, you have the power to put me to sleep in 
a few minutes. You are going to make me very 
very sleepy soon. I am going to sleep soon." 
After such autosuggestions have been made, let 
the patient banish as far as possible every thought 
of every nature whatsoever from his mind. Sleep 
will soon follow. 

Audible prayer to God in the name of the Lord 
Jesus Christ, either upon the part of the patient 
himself, or some one in whom he has confidence, 
is the most powerful suggestion for good that can 
be made, in sickness of all kinds. 

Audible prayer upon the part of one whom the 
patient dislikes, is more liable to do harm than 
good. 

Nurses could greatly help patients troubled 
with insomnia, by speaking to the subconscious 
realms of their minds when they are asleep, in 
low monotones so as to not disturb them, saying, 
"You will not be bothered with sleeplessness any 
more. From this time on sleep will come to you 
naturally and easily." 

The subconscious realm of the mind never 
sleeps. Helpful suggestions can be given to pa- 
tients of all kinds while they are sleeping. When 
awake they may reject helpful suggestions; but 
when sleeping the subconscious realms of their 
minds can be spoken directly to. 



134 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

Children are peculiarly amenable to suggestion 
at any time ; and especially when going to sleep, or 
when asleep. What a shame that parents fail to 
use this God given method for controlling their 
children. A few words lovingly spoken to a sleepy 
child, in the form of a helpful suggestion, will do 
more good than many whippings. 

A large proportion of the ills of life are the 
results of suggestions and autosuggestions, which 
while not realized by the conscious realm of the 
mind, nevertheless control the subconscious realm 
to an unfortunate degree. 

When you awaken in the morning and find the 
sun shining bright and clear and the birds sing- 
ing their glad songs all about you, you naturally 
without realization of its import, autosuggest, 
' ' The sun is shining bright and clear and the birds 
are singing so happily; I too shall be very happy 
today," The subconscious realm of your mind 
instantly responds to the autosuggestion and 
floods the conscious realm of your mind with joy 
and peace. 

When, however, you awaken in the morning 
and the first thing you hear is the patter of rain 
upon the shingles, and the dismal moaning of the 
wind in the tree tops, you naturally and without 
realization of its import, autosuggest, "0 how 
disappointed I am! the wind and the rain are so 
depressing. I just know I'll feel wretched and 
miserable all day." The subconscious realm of 
your mind instantly responds to the autosugges- 
tion and causes a feeling of loneliness and misery 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 135 

to envelop yon; and the whole day is spoiled for 
yon, nnless yon nproot that first autosuggestion 
and snpplant it with a bright and happy one, or 
unless yon meet some cheery acquaintance who 
gives yon a strong suggestion of cheerfulness. 

Who has not seen the happiness of a whole fam- 
ily dissipated in an instant by an nnkind word or 
act, npon the part of one member of the family; 
or witnessed the dispelling of a house fnll of 
•"bines" by the kind words or cheerfnl songs of 
one member of the family? 

I can well remember in the days of my child- 
hood, how my mother oft times cansed ns to for- 
get our childish dispute's by sitting at the piano 
and singing songs or hymns which we loved. We 
were soon happily singing with her. 

The plan of Grod has always been to "overcome 
evil with good;" and not to thrash the life out of 
evil. If the nations of earth were to adopt .God's 
plan, there would be few penitentiaries and asy- 
lums; because the evil conditions and environ- 
ments which produce criminals and lunatics, 
would be done away with. Jane Addams says, 
"The United States alone spends every year live 
hundred million dollars more on its policemen, 
courts and prisons, than upon all its work of re- 
ligion, charity and education." 

The life of each nation is the combined life of 
the individuals which make up each nation; there- 
fore we can help to regenerate and redeem nations 
only by helping to regenerate and redeem indi- 
viduals. 



136 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

All that is necessary to convince any thinking 
man that the majority of the acts of his life are 
controlled by suggestions, is to persuade him to 
carefully analyze his acts for a single day. 

Every superstition can be overcome by sugges- 
tion and autosuggestion. 

All athletes can testify to the fact that physical 
weakness and extreme exhaustion have many 
times been conquered by emphatic autosugges- 
tions. Numberless tests of endurance have been 
won by men who would certainly have failed had 
not the sight of loved faces, or the timely cheers 
of friends, roused them to greater efforts at criti- 
cal moments. 

The cheers of multitudes in the streets have 
nerved many a fireman to rush into the very jaws 
of death, to save the life of a despairing one. 

The attitudes of whole congregations toward 
their ministers have been changed merely through 
the frequently expressed opinions of single insig- 
nificant members. For instance, let the humblest 
member of a congregation say frequently and en- 
thusiastically, "Wasn't that one of the grandest 
sermons you ever heard? He's getting better 
every time he preaches!" It will not be long be- 
fore the effect will be noticeable throughout the 
entire congregation. On the other hand, let anoth- 
er insignificant member say frequently and dis- 
gustedly, "That preacher makes me weary. If 
possible he gets more tiresome every time he 
opens his mouth. I think it's high time we had 



THE MIND SCiKNCE OF CHRIST JESUS 137 

a change. ' ' Before long a feeling of general dis- 
content prevails. 

The cultured, refined and educated members of 
the congregations, would smile at the thought of 
their being influenced in the slightest degree by 
the expressed opinions of either of the insignifi- 
cant members mentioned; but the fact is, how- 
ever, that the subconscious realm of the mind of 
each person who hears such opinions expressed, 
is effected by the suggestion, whether it be. favor- 
able or adverse; unless the subconscious realm of 
the mind of each listener is positively instructed 
to reject the suggestion, each time the suggestion 
is made. 

So-called literary critics, by praising one book 
and condemning another, tremendously effect the 
sale of the books. It makes little difference 
whether the book praised by them is worthless, 
or the book condemned by them is of great value, 
since thousands of people gauge books only ac- 
cording to the opinions of the critics. 

In business life the power of suggestion is seen 
most strikingly in advertising. An advertisement 
of any kind is nothing more or less than a sug- 
gestion. The advertisements which influence peo- 
ple most are those which state not only that cer- 
tain things may be purchased at certain places 
and at certain prices, but suggest that the read- 
ers will want to buy the articles and why. 

PATENT MEDICINES. 

The patent medicine advertisement is particu- 
larly dangerous, because it plays upon the fears 



138 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

of the readers. It audaciously names almost ev- 
ery symptom of every disease known to man, and 
then emphatically states that if the readers have 
any of the symptoms- mentioned, they are in great 
danger; and the one and only sure remedy is the 
particular fake medicine which is therein adver- 
tised. If any man ever deserved to be sentenced 
to penitentiary for life, it is the infamous lying 
scoundrel who has made himself rich through the 
sale of worthless patent medicines to sick and suf- 
fering humanity. 

That the patent medicine advertisement is a 
powerful suggestion^ is proven by the millions of 
dollars which are spent every year for absolutely 
worthless concoctions, and worse than worthless 
quack medicines. 

It is not difficult to imagine the laughter with 
which the sellers of many patent medicines receive 
and publish - testimonials which are sent to them 
by people whom their good-for-nothing mixtures 
have "cured." 

I doubt not that many people have been greatly 
benefited after taking absolutely worthless pat- 
ent medicines; but they fail to understand the 
psychological reason for their cures. The bene- 
fit, or "cures/' came not from the medicines but 
in spite of them; through the power of sugges- 
tions received from the advertisements, together 
with the autosuggestions which the patients gave 
to themselves at the time of taking the medicines. 
The suggestions and autosuggestions cured, but 
not the medicines. The same people would have 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 139 

received as much or more benefit from properly 
directed autosuggestions, withont having been pnt 
to the expense of purchasing the worthless patent 
medicines. 

The following extracts are from the book en- 
titled, "Secret Remedies, What They Cost and 
What They Contain;" based on analyses made for 
the British Medical Association: — 
"Munyon's Blood Cure." 

"On the outer package it was stated: 

It eradicates all impurities from the blood, and 
cures scrofulitic eruptions, rash on the scalp, 
scald head, itching and burning, and any form of 
unhealthy, blotchy, pimply, or scaly skin; 

and similar claims were put forward on the, 
label and in a circular enclosed with the bottle. 
The bottle contained 200 pellets of average weight 
of V-2 grain. They consisted of sugar; careful 
search was made for small quantities of medica- 
ment, but no other ingredient could be detected. 
Quantitive determination of the sugar showed 
just 100%. The estimated cost is one thirtieth of 
a penny." 

"Pastor Felke's Honey Cod Liver Oil. 

"It is said to contain 'fat extracted cod liver 
oil,' whatever that may mean, but proved on ex- 
amination to be nothing more than a mixture of 
0.05% of cod liver oil with oil of peppermint and 
raspberry syrup." 

"Dr. B. Assmann's Whooping Cough Remedy. 

"This whooping cough remedy is, according 



140 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

to the vendor, so complicated that it is only made 
by himself, and cannot be obtained elsewhere. 
The packet contains forty powders, twenty of 
which are marked No. 1, and twenty No. 2. The 
chemical analysis showed that each powder, 
weighing two grams, consisted of milk sugar. No 
other constituent was detected.' ' 

"Beecham's Pills. 

' l The pills had an average weight of 1V± grains, 
and analysis showed them to consist of aloes, gin- 
ger, and soap; no other medical ingredient was 
found. The quantities were approximately as 
follows : 

Aloes 0.5 grain 

Powdered ginger 0.55 " 

Powdered soap 0.18 ". 

In one pill. 

The prime cost of the ingredients of the 56 pills 
is about half a farthing. 

''Cancer Remedies. 

"A very slight acquaintance with the adver- 
tisements of quack medicines is enough to show 
that a knowledge of the causes of the disease, for 
which a cure is promised, is in no wise necessary 
for the composition of either the medicine or the 
advertisement. A considerable number of articles 
have been received and tested at the laboratories 
of The Imperial Cancer Research Fund; specimens 
of a few of these were obtained and submitted to 
analysis. 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 141 

First "Remedy." 

"Fractional distillation showed the presence 
of about forty per cent of alcohol. After remov- 
ing the alcohol, the liquid was perfectly tasteless. 
This remedy consisted merely of diluted and 
slightly impure alcohol." 

Second "Remedy." 

"A so-called electric fluid, or 'electricity', for 
the cure of cancer, which was taken up by a cer- 
tain well known journalist and boomed by him in 
the pages of the review which he edited; many 
marvellous cures were ascribed to it, but examina- 
tion showed that although it was sold at several 
shillings per fluid ounce, it consisted of plain wa- 
ter. Notwithstanding the exposure, the article is 
at present quoted in wholesale lists, and is there- 
fore presumably still in demand." 

Third "Remedy." 

"A third preparation was a brown liquid of 
syrupy consistence found to consist of wood tar. 
No other ingredient could be found." 

These, analyses speak for themselves. They 
also surely speak for the tremendous power of 
suggestion and autosuggestion. 

It is estimated that the people of England paid 
over sixty million dollars for patent medicines 
during the year 1908. 

Before leaving the book, "Secret Remedies, 
What They Cost and What They Contain," I de- 
sire to give my readers the benefit of a most timely 
quotation : — 



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"HEADACHE POWDERS. 

"Persons who may be disposed to resort to 
their use, should bear two facts in mind. The 
first is that headache is not a disease but a 
symptom, and that the only rational treat- 
ment is to ascertain and remove the cause; 
whether it be error in diet, want of exercise, 
local irritation of some nerve as by an un- 
healthy tooth, eyestrain, or some serions chron- 
ic nervous disease. The second is that fatal 
results have been known to follow self-treat- 
ment with antifebrin (acetanilide), which 
figures largely in most of them." 

That the English people are not the only ones 
who permit the abominable patent medicine fakers 
to grow rich upon their credulity, is evidenced in 
the fact that, "every year the American public 
wastes between, seventy five and a hundred mil- 
lion dollars on medical frauds." This quotation 
and the quotations following, are taken from an 
article upon the subject, "The Meanest Business 
In The World," by Edith Eickert, in the Ladies' 
Home Journal September 1913; which article is 
indorsed by Dr. A. Jacobi, former President of the 
American Medical Association: — 

"One such company recommends its nostrum 
as able to 'shorten the duration of labor,' to 're- 
lieve the suffering incident to childbirth,' and to 
'prevent the loss of beauty and shapeliness of 
figure' due to motherhood. This wonder "worker 
consists of oil and a little soap." 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 143 

"Particularly profitable is that branch of medi- 
cal fraud practiced by 

THE BEAUTY FAKERS. 

Take the concoctions of a most snccessfnl 'spec- 
ialist ' who was recently unmasked by Government 
investigation. She sells face ointment which she 
describes as 'skin food,' 'a marvellous nourishing 
product that feeds through the pores of the skin, ' 
and is 'guaranteed to remove wrinkles and every 
trace of age from the face.' Analysis showed it 
to be more than three fourths grease, a 'marvel- 
lous nourishing product' indeed — of hairs on the 
face. This pot of perfuined grease in disguise, 
worth three cents, she sells for $1.50. She also has 
a 'woman's tonic' which she said would cure ev- 
ery disease to which woman falls heir. It con- 
sists of water, sugar and alcohol, with a trace of 
plant drugs. It sells for $1.00." 

"Another company advertises a 'drugless sys- 
tem of fat reduction.' It requires, however, the 
use of an 'obesity bath powder' which is supposed 
to dissolve the fat. This sells at $1.00 for a half 
pound package. It consists of washing soda, salt- 
peter, Epsom salts and Glauber salts, and is worth 
less than five cents." 

"The vendors of 'baby killers' live on the fat 
of the land. The soothing syrups, teething syrups, 
sweet powders, croup remedies, children's com- 
forts, and babies' friends, which they sell, all de- 
pend for their effect upon alcohol and one or all 
of the stupefying drugs — opium, morphine or 



144 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

chloroform. Used to excess they kill outright* 
used even in moderation they gradually become a 
necessity to the child's system, and before the 
parents realize the danger they have on their 
hands a victim of the drug habit." 

If you have sickness in your family, which you 
fail to overcome by mentality and prayer, consult 
the best local physician; and don't permit your- 
self to be .swindled and your health ruined, by 
taking the worthless concoctions and advice of the 
infamous scoundrels who advertise so extensively. 



Chapter XI. 
MENTAL HEALING. 

Mental healing is the overcoming of sickness 
and the conditions which cause sickness, by hu- 
man mentality alone, through suggestion and 
autosuggestion. 

Mental healing in itself is a blessing, but when 
made the basis of religion it becomes a menace 
and a curse. 

One may be a successful mental healer and yet 
be devoid of true religion. Many of the most 
successful mental healers are representatives of, 
or connected with, systems of religion which are 
utterly false. 

A most striking illustration of this is Mrs. Mary 
Baker G-. Eddy's so-called Christian Science. 
Christian Science is purely a system of mental 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 145 

healing, in which the premises being wrong, the 
conclusions also are wrong. Had Mrs. Eddy been 
content to have taught on the basis of mentality 
only, she might have done more good than evil; 
although her premises were wrong; but by mak- 
ing her system of mental healing into a false re- 
ligion, she lias imperilled the eternal destiny of 
multitudes. 

When instructing the practitioners in her so- 
called science, Mrs. Eddy dropped her ordinary 
thought clouding style of writing, and made her 
meaning clear; revealing in a few forcible utter- 
ances 

the very heart and soul of Christian Science, 
in a manner which none can misunderstand. 
She says: 

" Always begin your treatment by allaying 
the fear of your patients. Silently reassure 
them as to their exemption from disease and 
danger. If you succeed in wholly removing 
the fear, your patient is healed." 
"Science and Health," page 411, lines 27-30/ 
"There is no disease." 

"Science and Health," page 421, line 18. 
"The sick are not healed merely by declar- 
ing there is no sickness, but by knowing there 
is none." 

"Science and Health," page 447, line 27. 
"Inflammation is fear. Disease is neither 
a cause nor an effect. Mind in every case is 
the eternal God." 

"Science and Health," page 414, line 21. 



146 ' THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

• l ' Tell him lie suffers only as the insane suf- 
fers, from false beliefs.'' 

"Science and Health," page 421, line 1. 
Mrs. Eddy taught her practitioners that there is 
in reality no disease. People are what is called 
"sick" when they get fixed ideas of evil into 
their minds, from which they suffer as the insane 
suffer, The fear of disease causes disease; only 
the disease so caused is in reality no disease what- 
ever; therefore the instant the fear is removed, 
the disease which never existed is cured. Inflam- 
mation is fear, therefore the instant the fear is 
removed, the inflammation is removed. There is 
no disease. 

This is Mrs. Eddy's plainly expressed theory 
concerning disease; and to support this theory, 
the balance of her book was written. 

Let us consider a few vividly manifested facts: 
1st. If there is no disease, then all the wonder- 
ful cures claimed by Christian Science, are 
cures only of diseases which never existed. 
2nd. If there is no disease, then the one Mind, 
God, cannot possibly have anything to do 
with the curing of disease. 
3rd. If there is no disease, then the miracles of 
Jesus Christ were no miracles at all ; but were 
simply the curing of diseases which never 
existed. 
4th. If disease is neither a cause nor an effect, 
then it must of necessity have absolutely no 
existence whatsoever (in which event it is 
utterly irrational to even speak of it) ; or else 



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it must have always been, eternal as the eter- 
nal God. If disease is neither a cause nor 
an effect, then disease was never caused by 
fear; nor was it ever removed by the remov- 
ing of fear. 
5th. If disease never existed, then disease 
never caused the death of any one; and the 
untold millions who have supposedly died 
from disease, never in fact did die, and are 
therefore still alive ; although they have been 
buried; amongst whom is Mrs. Eddy herself. 

Mrs. Eddy's instructions to her practitioners 
reveal clearly that she knew her system of healing 
to be a purely mental one. She told them that 
disease is caused by fear, and that the patients 
are suffering from fixed ideas of evil. "If you 
succeed in wholly removing the fear, your patient 
is healed. ' ' Her denial of cause and effect is fool- 
ish and childish; for she herself states that fear 
is the one cause of disease, and the removal of fear 
is the one cure of disease. 

Her instructions were simply that since disease 
is the result of fixed ideas of evil, the only cure 
is the removal of the fixed ideas of evil. Fixed 
ideas are always the results of suggestions and 
autosuggestions ; therefore they can be removed 
only through more emphatic suggestions and auto- 
suggestions. 

The evidence seems to be conclusive that Mrs. Eddy was 
not the author of the Christian Science text book, "Science 
and Health," but I do not care to enter into a discussion of 
that phase of the matter at this time. I am discussing only 
the subject matter of the said text book. The Author. 



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Healing by suggestions and autosuggestions is 
purely mental; no matter under what guise it pre- 
sents itself. 

Christian Science can heal no disease which 
cannot be healed by mentality alone; that is by 
suggestion and autosuggestion. 

When sickness has been caused by fear, or 
worry, or any kind of wrong thinking, it can be 
cured by suggestions and autosuggestions which 
will produce right thinking. When sickness is the 
result of the holding of fixed ideas of evil, even 
the false suggestions of Christian Science practi- 
tioners will bring relief ; because the only remedy 
needed is that the idea of sickness be removed: 
but when sickness is the result of accident, or real 
organic disorder, Christian Science practitioners 
are utterly powerless. 

All the Christian Science practitioners and all 
the mental healers on earth put together, cannot 
set one broken bone, except by physical contact. 

Christian Scientists are forced to have the den- 
tists treat their decaying teeth, and on such occa- 
sions clearly demonstrate that pain is every bit 
as real to them as it is to other people. 

Since mental healing is purely a matter of men- 
tality, (and so-called Christian Science is nothing 
more or less than a false system of mental heal- 
ing) it is no proof whatever that a man or woman 
has any realization of God, or has ever been in 
right relations with God, because he or she is a 
successful mental healer. Through mentality 
alone, without prayer, and without any pretense 



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at being' aided by God, cures can be wrought, 
which to the uninitiated appear miraculous. 

Infinitely better would it be, in the light of 
eternity, for one to remain in ill health until 
claimed by death, than to be healed by any pro- 
cess,' if such healing is to be made the means of 
winning the one healed away from the living God ; 
the conscious realm of whose mind is Jesus Christ. 

It is irrational to attempt to separate God from 
Jesus Christ, or Jesus Christ from God. One 
mind cannot be separated into two minds. Jesus 
Christ is the conscious realm of the one Mind, 

God. 

• 

The one Mind, God, revealed by Jesus Christ, is 
a living, thinking, loving personality: and not an 
impersonal principle, good. 

The Hebrew words for ' ' God ' ' are ' ' Elohim and 
Jehovah.'' The Hebrew word for ''good" is 
"tob." 

The Greek word for "God" is "Theos."- The 
Greek word for "good" is "agathos." 

Thus the truth is manifest that Mrs. Eddy had 
absolutely no warrant .from Hebrew, Greek nor 
English to use the words "God" and "good" as 
though they had the same meaning. 

Christ Jesus, is the conscious realm of the mind 
of God; and the only revelation of God that crea- 
tion shall ever know; and He certainly was not 
and is not an impersonal principle. Christ Jesus 
was God manifest in the flesh. 

Why make a mystery over the nature and char- 



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acter of God when He Himself lias made it so 
plain. • 

God is one mind, one personality, divided into 
three realms : Christ Jesus, the conscious ; the 
Father, the subconscious; and the Holy Spirit, the 
superconscious. These are not three minds, but 
three realms of the one mind. 

The apostle Panl declared a great truth when 
he wrote, "The creature was made subject to van- 
ity." Rom. 8:20. The word "creature" literally 
means "the mind creation." The real mind of 
man, as created by God, was made subject to van- 
ity, or a vain thing, The real mind of man is the 
subconscious realm. The "vain thing" to which 
it was made subject, is the conscious realm. The 
conscious realm is largely artificial, imitative and 
unreal; in fact "a vain thing." 

Doubtless God intended man to do all things 
subconsciously; even as Christ Jesus, the con- 
scious realm of the mind of God, thought all His 
thoughts and performed all His deeds subcon- 
sciously. Christ Jesus, having the will of God 
seated in Himself, had the power to control the 
mind of God; but He did not will to use His 
power. The conscious realm of the mind. of man, 
having the will of man seated in itself, has the 
power to control the mind of man; and because 
of sin, the conscious realm always wills to control. 

All sickness is caused by the mistakes, or de- 
liberate wrong actions of the conscious realm. If 
the conscious realm were to always properly use 
the reason, judgment and will, so as not to inter- 



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fere with the perfect working of the subconscious 
realm, there would be no sickness. The subcon- 
scious realm has power stored within itself suffi- 
cient to always enable it to perfectly perform all 
the work for which it is responsible, namely, res- 
piration, digestion, circulation and all involun- 
tary muscular movements; but the conscious 
realm, having the will seated within itself, has the 
power to interfere with and control the subcon- 
scious realm; and does continually interfere with 
and control it, to the detriment of the mind itself 
and the body which it indwells. 

It is impossible for the conscious realm to think 
one thought without influencing the subconscious 
realm to a certain degree. Every such influence 
builds up or breaks down the nerve force of the 
body. Worry, anger, malice, jealousy, envy, bit- 
terness, hatred, variance, strife, lust, etc., act as 
poisons of greater or lesser intensity, upon the 
organs of the body; and interfere with the func- 
tions of the same. Every good thought, or uplift- 
ing emotion, manufactures energy: while every 
evil thought, or degrading emotion, destroys en- 
ergy. The body and mind react the one upon the 
other. Good food, frequent bathing, fresh air 
and sunshine, all have helpful influences upon 
both bodily and mental conditions. 

It is the conscious realm of the mind of man 
which sins, worries, dissipates and loses sleep; 
and by so doing interferes with the perfect work- 
ing of the subconscious realm. The worries and 
dissipations of the conscious realm of the average 



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man, make perfect digestion through the intuitive 
working of the subconscious realm impossible. 
The result is indigestion. 

When the conscious realm, by the exercise of 
the will, determines to keep the body surrounded 
by a vitiated atmosphere, it makes it an utter 
impossibility for the subconscious realm to purify 
the blood by the breathing of fresh air. The re- 
sult is impure blood. 

It is the conscious realm which over eats and 
oyer drinks and breaks the laws of health. 

Not only is the work of the subconscious realm 
continually interfered with by the mistakes, ne- 
glects and deliberate wrong actions of the con- 
scious realm, but it is also misdirected and mis- 
controlled by the autosuggestions of the conscious 
realm. 

The subconscious realm is utterly devoid of 
reason, judgment and will; and therefore believes 
every statement that is made to it, whether the 
statement be true or false. 

If the conscious realm declares, "I am sick," 
the subconscious realm believes the declaration, 
and immediately proceeds to induce sickness. 

If the conscious realm, realizing that the symp- 
toms of sickness are manifesting themselves, em- 
phatically auto suggests to the subconscious realm, 
"I will not be sick! I am going to be well and 
strong," the subconscious realm believes the dec- 
laration, and immediately proceeds to induce 
health and strength. 

For a man therefore to admit even to himself 



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that sickness will in all probability overcome him, 
is to unite the forces of the subconscious realm of 
his own mind with, the forces of the disease; 
whereas to deny even to himself the power of 
sickness to overcome him, is to array all the forces 
of the subconscious realm of his mind against the 
forces of the disease. 

That, which any physician dreads most, is the 
loss of determination upon the part of the patient 
to get well. A strong unyielding determination 
to live, has brought many a person back to health 
and strength from the verge of the grave. 

Many doctors kill their patients, by telling them 
they have only a short time to live ; thereby para- 
lyzing with fear the marvellous recuperative 
forces of the subconscious realm's, which in them- 
selves are more than sufficient, if roused and prop- 
erly directed, to overcome the diseases; even after 
the know it-all physicians have utterly failed. 

Many sick people are actually killed by the 
thoughtless unguarded words of physicians, 
nurses and friends; in spite of the fact that they 
use every particle of will power to recover. 

For instance, suppose a patient who has un- 
yieldingly determined to recover, has reached the 
time of crisis. He is sleeping, or is perhaps un- 
conscious. His physician and nurse, with some 
friends, stand beside his bed. Failing to realize 
that the subconscious realm of the patient's mind 
never sleeps and is never unconscious, they con- 
verse in low tones, which however are perfectly 
audible to the wonderful subconscious realm of 



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the patient's mind. The patient's wife asks, "Is 
there any hope, doctor?" The doctor replies, 
"None whatever. He is sinking rapidly.. In 
another honr at most he will be dead.' ' The sub- 
conscious realm of the patient's mind hears that 
fateful suggestion and believes it; because the un- 
conscious patient is unable to exercise his own 
will to reject and uproot the suggestion. In an 
instant, all the forces of the subconscious realm 
of the patient's mind are turned against him and 
united with the forces of the disease which is kill- 
ing him, by the very doctor whom he trusted to 
heal him. 

"Death and life are in the power of the tongue. ' ' 
Prov. 18:21. 

To speak of the hopelessness of a case, in the 
presence of the sick one, even though the patient 
is asleep or unconscious, is almost criminal; for 
the subconscious realm of the mind never sleeps, 
and is never unconscious: and every word uttered 
is recorded in the indestructible memory of the 
subconscious realm; and has its influence upon 
the mind of the patient. 

The most unkind thing one can do, when in the 
presence of & sick person, is to offer a suggestion 
which will make recovery more difficult. Such a 
suggestion as, "I am sorry to see you looking so 
much worse today, ' ' is sufficient in many cases to 
cause a relapse. People who haven't sense enough 
to refrain from saying harmful things, should 
never be permitted to enter the presence of the 
sick. 



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If physicians could but realize that their sug- 
gestions are more powerful, in the majority of 
cases, than their medicines, they would lose fewer 
cases, and would be much more guarded in their 
utterances. 

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of 
cure." The subconscious realm can be trained, 
by proper autosuggestions, to always be on the 
alert, whether the conscious realm is waking or 
sleeping, to warn one of the approach of danger; 
and to cause one to instantly do the right thing 
intuitively, in unexpected moments of crisis and 
danger. 

All kinds of sickness are induced or intensified 
by improper autosuggestions. For instance, let 
a man who is finding a little difficulty in getting 
to sleep, say to himself, "I just can't sleep! It is 
simply impossible for me to sleep ! ' ' "What is the 
result? The subconscious realm of his mind, be- 
ing devoid of reason and judgment, has no means 
of knowing that the ejaculated utterances are 
ridiculous exaggerations, and accepts the state- 
ments as truth; and immediately proceeds to do 
its utmost to induce continued sleeplessness. 

"Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also 
reap." Gal. 6:7. This is literally true of every 
autosuggestion which a man gives to the subcon- 
scious realm of his mind; whether it be for good 
or for evil. 

Let a man who has been greatly troubled with 
insomnia, quietly lie down and autosuggest to the 
subconscious realm of his mind, "Subconscious 



156 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

realm, yon have the power to make me sleep; and 
you are going to make me very very sleepy, soon, 
so that in five minutes I shall be sound asleep : ' ' 
and he will be asleep in five minutes ; unless he is 
disturbed by other people, or counteracts his own 
suggestion. In such an event he should, without 
thought of discouragement, try again. 

The author writes from personal experience. 
For many years he was greatly troubled with in- 
somnia; being brought to the verge of nervous 
prostration several times; but through autosug- 
gestion and prayer, sleeplessness has been over- 
come. 

Concentration of thought is absolutely essential 
to successful autosuggestion; and nothing helps 
so much toward perfect concentration of thought, 
as prayer. 

The subconscious realm of the mind of man is 
greater than heredity. 

Because the parent of a child has died of a cer- 
tain disease, is no reason why the child 
should die of the same disease. The placing of the 
thought in the mind of a child, that because his 
father or mother died of a certain disease, he 
must contract and die of the same disease, is little 
short of murder. By placing such a suggestion 
in the subconscious realm of the child's mind, and 
holding it there by frequent repetitions, until it 
becomes a fixed idea, the child is forced to con- 
tract the disease. Few children know enough to 
reject such murderous suggestions, and are there- 



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fore easily made the victims of fixed ideas of evil; 
which result in disease and death. 

Because earthly courts fail to bring charges of 
murder against those who place fixed ideas of 
disease in the minds of defenseless children, makes 
them no less murderers: and in the great judg- 
ment day they will find themselves face to face 
with a Judge who knows all about their guilt. 

Children are peculiarly amenable to suggestion. 
All bad habits in children can be cured by sugges- 
tion and autosuggestion. Children are quick to 
learn autosuggestion, and in many cases amaze 
by their wondrous power of concentration. For 
instance, a certain mother was greatly worried 
because of the persistency with which the blood 
continued to flow whenever her boy cut himself. 
A gentleman who understood the power of auto- 
suggestion, taught the lad how to control the flow 
of the blood by his own concentrated thoughts. 
Not long after the boy again cut himself, much 
worse than before. To the mother's amazement, 
and to her consternation as well, the blood did not 
flow. 

The whipping of children is seldom necessary 
when the power of suggestion and autosuggestion 
is used. If your child has any bad habit, take him 
or her tenderly in your arms at bed time, and say, 
"My darling, you are not going to do (whatever 
it is) any more. Say to yourself just as earnestly 
as you can, 'I am not going to do (whatever it is) 
any more.' Keep saying that, dear, until you fall 
asleep." Thus by suggestion, and teaching the 



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child to autosuggest, yon will quickly overcome 
the bad habit in yonr child. Then after yonr child 
is asleep, repeat the suggestion a number of times 
in a low monotone. A suggestion given just as 
the child goes to sleep, works in the mind of the 
child throughout the entire night. 

Unkind words, or evil suggestions, given to 
your child just as it goes to sleep, work in the 
mind of the child throughout the entire night. 
Surely any thinking parent can realize, therefore, 
the criminality of harsh words and unkind acts 
at bed time. The conscious realm of the child's 
mind can throw off the effect of such words and 
acts, to a certain degree, during hours of wakeful- 
ness; but the child is absolutely helpless during 
its hours of sleep. 

Remember, the subconscious realm of your 
child's mind never sleeps. 

To force a child to go to bed in the dark, when 
such a proceeding fills its mind with terror, is to 
concentrate all the forces of the subconscious 
realm of the child's mind to the destruction of 
energy throughout the entire night. 

Nothing robs darkness of its terror for a child 
so quickly as the suggestion of prayer, accom- 
panied with some such words as these, "'My dar- 
ling, you don't need to be afraid. The Lord 
Jesus, who loves little children, can see in the dark 
just as well as He can in the light, and He won't 
let anything hurt you." 

A child who has learned that his parents tell 
the truth at all times, will readily be influenced by 



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their suggestions, while awake; but a child who 
has learned to doubt the veracity of his parents, 
can best be influenced by them when sleeping. 
When giving suggestions to a sleeping child, 
speak in a low clear monotone, so as not to disturb 
its slumber. 

The best time to make autosuggestions, is just 
before sleeping and just after awaking. 

The best time to make suggestions, is just be- 
fore sleeping, while sleeping, and just after awak- 
ing. 

The Psalmist understood the secrets of auto- 
suggestion. The Holy Spirit has set His seal of 
approval upon autosuggestion; because it was the 
Spirit that inspired the Psalmist to write, "Com- 
mune with thine own heart upon thy bed, and be 
still." Ps. 4:4. 

The word "heart" when literally translated 
means "the very center of the mind;" or that 
portion of the mind in which affection has its seat ; 
which is the subconscious realm. 

"Be still," means to be concentrated in thought. 

"Upon thy bed." These words clearly indicate 
the best time for autosuggestion; just before 
sleeping and just after awaking. 

"When I remember Thee upon my bed." Ps. 
63:6. "How precious are Thy thoughts unto me, 
God. When I awake I am still with Thee. " . Ps. 
139:17, 18. The Psalmist not only understood and 
appreciated the secrets of mentality; but he also 
understood and appreciated the secrets of prayer. 

"Be still." Take time to be holy. Don't per- 



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mit your thoughts to wander. Let nothing dis- 
tract the conscious realm of your mind when auto- 
suggesting. No device of man is so powerful an 
aid to concentration, as prayer. 

Within the subconscious realm of the mind of 
each normal human being, is an almost inexhaus- 
tible reservoir of health and power, which can 
at all times be drawn upon by suggestions and 
autosuggestions. 

Thousands of people are insane today, through 
neither heredity nor accidents, but as the direct 
result of the holding of fixed ideas of grief, sick- 
ness, malice, or such like. The subconscious realms 
have been brought completely under the control 
of the fixed ideas, and have reacted upon the con- 
scious realms to such an extent as to unseat the 
reason, judgment and will of the conscious realms. 

The subconscious realms of such insane indivi- 
duals, are just as suggestible today as they ever 
were; but the individuals themselves are beyond 
self help. The fixed ideas, which brought insanity 
upon them, must be removed before they can be 
cured. Learn in each case, if possible, what the 
fixed idea is which has caused the insanity, and 
then frequently, emphatically and clearly (and 
withal lovingly) suggest in such a manner as to 
liberate the subconscious realm of the mind of 
the individual from that fixed idea. To affirm the 
delusions of people who have been made insane 
by fixed ideas, is but to intensify the delusions, 
and make their healing more* hopeless. 

So long as life remains in the body, the sub- 



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conscious realm of the mind will receive sugges- 
tions. The subconscious realm never sleeps, is 
never unconscious and is never drugged. 

A sleeping, unconscious, drugged or drunken 
man can be instructed through suggestions, just 
as well as when wide awake and perfectly con- 
scious. 

Unconsciousness is prolonged by such sugges- 
tions as, "He'll be a long time coming out of it," 
or "poor fellow, I doubt if he ever gains conscious- 
ness again." Lay your hand upon the uncon- 
scious one and address the subconscious realm of 
his mind; and to intensify the suggestion rub 
vigorously or dash cold water into the face, as 
you say, "You are coming back to consciousness 
in a few moments. Rubbing your limbs (or dash- 
ing the cold water, as the case may be) will help 
you. Come, wake up!" 

Many a poor broken hearted drunkard's wife 
has unknowingly confirmed her husband in his 
drunkenness. Drunkards can be cured by good 
suggestions and autosuggestions; or they can be 
confirmed in their drunkenness by evil sugges- 
tions and autosuggestions. Even though a drun- 
kard may stubbornly refuse to aid in his own cure 
by autosuggestions, his wife can control him by 
•her suggestions. 

If a drunkard does not resent suggestions when 
sober, then let the suggestions be made before he 
sleeps; and if he sleeps soundly, so that speaking 
in a low monotone will not disturb him, let the 
suggestions be frequently repeated during the 



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hours when he is asleep. If, however, he resents 
helpful suggestions when sober, let the sugges- 
tions be made when he is asleep. When he is 
drunk, the wife should lay her hands upon him 
firmly, but lovingly, and address the subconscious 
realm of his mind, in some such manner as this, 
"My husband, you must never, never get drunk 
again! Tomorrow you are coming straight home 
from your work; and you are not going to the 
saloon even for a single glass. You are not going 
to be ashamed when other men make sport of you 
for refusing to drink, but you are going to realize 
that you are a real man when your refuse to drink. 
I will be waiting to welcome you, and I will make 
home as attractive as possible for you. You are 
going to love your home and you are not going 
to feel a thirst for liquor any more. You are go- 
ing to hate the smell and taste of liquor. You are 
never, never going to get drunk again ! " It may 
take a number of such instructions to overcome 
his long standing habit of drink; but sooner or 
later, if the wife persists; and especially if she 
backs up her suggestions by earnest prayer to 
God in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ; a radi- 
cal change for the better will come. 

For a wife to suggest to her husband, either 
when he is drunk or sober, that he is a drunken 
good-for-nothing, and that he never will amount 
to anything, is but to confirm him in his drunken- 
ness. The subconscious realm is influenced by 
every suggestion, whether good or bad. 

Worry and fear are the prime factors in dis- 



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ease. Fear of a disease oft times causes a disease. 
The health forces of the body are strangled by 
fear and worry. Worry and fear cause nervous- 
ness; and nervousness simulates almost every form 
of disease. Worry and fear can be overcome by 
proper suggestions and autosuggestions. 

If one auto-suggests upon rising in the morning, 
"I am going to have a sick headache today," and 
fails to counteract that autosuggestion with a 
more emphatic one, such as, "I am not going to 
have a sick headache! I am going to feel bright, 
and cheerful and happy all the day;" he will, in 
all probability, have the sick headache. 

It is not right for a person, who is really sick, 
to affirm, "I am well! There is nothing the mat- 
ter with me!" Under the circumstances the affir- 
mation is nothing more nor less than a lie. It is 
right, however, for a person who is really sick, to 
autosuggest to the subconscious realm of his 
mind, "Subconscious realm, you are stronger than 
any disease, and you are going to quickly over- 
come this disease." 

The Christian Scientist says, "Deny it;" but 
fails to realize that the very denial of a thing 
is an acknowledgment of its existence. God's 
plan has never been to deny the existence of evil; 
but to "overcome evil with good." Bom.' 12:21. 
It is irrational to speak of overcoming a thing 
which does not exist. 

The subconscious realm of the normal human 
mind, is more powerful than any disease, and if 
properly instructed, it will quickly overcome dis- 



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ease and give victory; unless it is hindered by 
counter autosuggestions of the conscious realm, 
or by evil suggestions from other minds. 

It is never necessary to tell falsehoods either in 
making suggestions or autosuggestions. Many 
mental healers instruct their patients to utterly 
deny sickness and constantly affirm health. The 
fact is that sickness which does not exist is no 
sickness at all. If the sickness is purely imagi- 
nary, having no existence in fact, then the only 
cure necessary is the removal of the thought of 
sickness. If, however, the sickness is not imagi- 
nary, but has an existence in fact, then the denial 
of it makes its existence no less real. If the sick- 
ness has been produced through a process of 
wrong thinking, such as a fixed idea of evil; then 
it can be cured only through a process of right 
thinking, which will remove the fixed idea of evil 
which has caused it. If the sickness is the result 
of accident or organic disorder, even a process of 
right thinking may not be sufficient to remove it. 

To teach a patient who is actually sick, to deny 
that there is anything the matter with him, is to 
teach him to lie; and the Word of God most em- 
phatically states, "These six things doth the Lord 
hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto Him: 
a proud look, a lying tongue," etc. Prov. 6:16-19. 
Mental healers who lie, and teach their patients 
to lie, confine all possibility of healing to their 
own false suggestions and autosuggestions; for 
by their falsehoods they make spiritual healing an 
absolute impossibility. Grod will not work in uni- 



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son with liars. Christ Jesus said, concerning 
Satan, "He is a liar, and the father of it." John 
8:44. 

A false affirmation in regard to healing is just 
as much a lie as any other false affirmation; and 
sin always brings punishment, both physically 
and spiritually. 

Mental healers who declare that medicines are 
never helpful, except as aids to suggestion, simply 
reveal their colossal ignorance. They sneeringiy 
ask, ' ' How can the taking of a little pill overcome 
fever?" Let me ask them in return, "How can 
the taking of a drink of water overcome thirst! or 
how can the eating of a beefsteak overcome hun- 
ger!" We know that water does quench thirst 
and food does satisfy hunger; then why have we 
any reason to doubt that the roots and herbs which 
God has made for that very purpose, will over- 
come certain other conditions which we call sick- 
ness? Even the Christian Science practitioners, 
who declare that mind is all, and that all mind is 
the eternal God, and that nothing material can 
possibly effect mind; eat their three meals a day 
with monotonous regularity. If they had the 
least degree of faith in their own theory, they 
would surely have attempted to demonstrate ere 
this, the possibility of existence without material 
food. 

' ' Every good gift and every perfect gift is from 
above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, 
with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of 
turning.'' Jas. 1:17. Spiritual healing is one of 



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God's perfect gifts. Mental healing is one of 
God's good gifts. Medicines nnder certain con- 
ditions, are just as certainly some of God's good 
gifts. One is foolish indeed to refuse to accept of 
the good gifts of God, if he lacks the faith to lay 
hold npon the perfect gifts. 

If a man who could not swim were beyond his 
depth in water, clinging desperately to a plank 
for life, you surely would not snatch away the 
plank and leave him floundering, simply because 
you owned a high power motor boat. If you came 
along beside him and lifted him up into your boat, 
the moment he felt his feet upon the solid deck 
he would lose all further desire for the plank. 
Men and women are grown up children; and the 
way to persuade them to give up what is not good 
for them, is to give them something better. It is 
not necessary in the early spring, to go among the 
trees and pick off the old dead leaves. Wait until 
the new life surges through the trees, and the new 
shoots force their way out; then the old dead 
leaves drop off naturally. 

People who are able to trust God for healing, or 
who are able by their own mentality to gain heal- 
ing, should never belittle and ridicule the true 
physician, who in his sphere is doing his utmost 
to alleviate the sufferings of his fellow men. I do 
not mean that the foolish glamour of profession- 
alism which hangs about the "M. D." title, should 
not be destroyed to a certain extent ; but I do mean 
that only harm can come from robbing people of 



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the good gifts of God, if we are not able to per- 
suade them to accept the perfect gifts. 

It is possible, under certain conditions, even for 
those who know the perfect gifts of God, to lose 
much more than they gain by foolishly refusing 
to accept, at times, some of the good gifts. 

Even Christ Jesus Himself said, "Thou shalt 
not tempt the Lord thy God." Mat. 4:7. Pride is 
always an abominable thing; and especially when 
it is spiritual pride. Some of the proudest people 
I have ever known were people who were proud 
of their humility; or of their faith. 

Let us never be presumptuous. Let us always 
use the common sense God has given us. 

When a bone is broken, the trouble is purely 
physical; and the only sensible thing to do is to 
have the bone set by the physician who is most 
competent to set it. If a dose of deadly poison 
is taken into one's system, the trouble is physical; 
and the most sensible thing is to speedily take 
the most effective antidote available. It is a 
tempting of Providence, and a foolish act indeed, 
to depend upon mentality alone; or even upon 
mentality and prayer; if an antidote to the poison 
is obtainable. 

If no antidote is obtainable, then it is no tempt- 
ing of Providence to lay hold upon the promises 
of God for healing; and by faith link the forces of 
the Infinite, with the forces of the subconscious 
realm of one 's own mind. 

If one autosuggests, "I am going to catch a 
severe cold," the subconscious realm believes the 



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affirmation and immediately proceeds to induce a 
severe cold. Such cold is the result of fear and 
improper autosuggestion. A cold so induced, if 
treated immediately, by emphatic proper autosug- 
gestions, can be quickly cured; but if neglected 
the condition will soon become a physical one, when 
it will be much more difficult to control. When 
one is chilled, the best safeguard against taking 
cold is deep breathing, coupled with emphatic 
autosuggestions, such as, "I am not going to catch 
cold! Subconscious realm, you are able to over- 
come this chilled condition and throw off all 
cold. ' ' Inhale pure air deeply and frequently, and 
exhale quickly. 

The majority of murders and suicides are doubt- 
less the direct results of evil autosuggestions. If 
a man, when angry, permits himself to fiercely 
autosuggest, "I'll kill that fellow if I ever get 
the chance," or "I'll blow my head off some of 
these days," and fails to counteract such evil 
autosuggestions with more powerful good ones, 
such as, "I'll never kill any man! God helping 
me I'll love my enemies and overcome them by 
the power of good;" or "I'll never be coward 
enough to commit suicide!" the next time a fit 
of anger comes upon him he will be more violent 
still: and if he continues, each time anger pos- 
sesses him, to make such vicious autosuggestions, 
the subconscious realm of his mind will eventu- 
ally accept the autosuggestions as fixed ideas of 
evil; and will so powerfully react upon the con- 



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scious realm as to cause him to commit the threat- 
ened murder, or suicide. 

Suppose a clerk, dissatisfied with his wages, 
permits himself to murmur fierce autosuggestions, 
such as, "I'll get even some day! I'll steal from 
him if I don't get what's due me." At first he 
does not mean what he says, and if given the 
opportunity to steal would not do so; but after 
giving such evil suggestions to the subconscious 
realm of his mind a number of times, the subcon- 
scious realm will react upon the conscious realm, 
and break down his ideals of honesty, causing him 
to deliberately will to commit a dishonest act. 

Kleptomaniacs are the victims of fixed ideas of 
dishonesty; and can be cured by suggestions and 
autosuggestions. A thief who wishes to reform 
cannot do so by merely saying, ' ' I will never steal 
again." He must frequently, definitely and em- 
phatically instruct the subconscious realm of his 
mind to the effect that he will never be dishonest 
again. Bad habits which have taken years to 
form can rarely be broken without a struggle. 

The most effectual cure for all bad habits, of 
any and every nature whatsoever, is personal con- 
tact with the Lord Jesus Christ. He is saying 
today, as he said to the man who was full of 
leprosy, "I will, be thou clean;'' and the man who 
experiences that personal touch of the Saviour, 
will also experience the perfect healing. 

For scores of generations the thought has been 
held as a fixed idea, by members of the human 
race, that signs of old age must be manifested 



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when the age of fifty or sixty years is reached. 
The result is that old age is apparent, in the ma- 
jority of instances, when fifty or sixty years is 
reached. As snrely as we permit ourselves to con- 
tinue to hold this thought, we too shall manifest 
signs of old age when we reach the age of fifty 
or sixty; but if we refuse to hold such a thought, 
and buoyantly and confidently look forward to the 
coming years, keeping our hearts and our thoughts 
young, we can conquer old age, for many more 
than the ordinary years at least, just as we have 
conquered many another foe. 

The scope of mentality is tremendous, and yet 
there are thousands of cases which cannot be 
reached by mentality alone. Spiritual healing, 
however, has absolutely no limit, but the will of 
God. 

Eev. Dr. E. L. House, author of "The Psychol- 
ogy Of Orthodoxy," recently related to me the 
following personal experience. While lecturing 
in Long Beach, California, Dr. House was invited 
to a certain home, and found therein a boy six 
years of age, who had never walked nor talked; 
having been paralyzed from his birth. The little 
fellow was lying on the floor and was barely able 
to roll his eyes; but was intelligent to the extent 
that he took notice and seemed to understand 
much that was being said and done. Dr. House 
said he taught the child's mother how to suggest 
and how to teach the child to autosuggest, so as 
to rouse the dormant forces of the subconscious 
realm of the child's mind. 



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He said, ' ' I told tlie mother to hold the child in 
her arms, while she was putting it to sleep, and 
say, 'My darling, yon are soon going to be able 
to walk just like other boys, and talk just like 
other boys. These little arms are soon going to 
grow strong, just like other boys' arms; and these 
little legs are soon going to grow strong just like 
other boys' legs. Tomorrow you are going to 
reach out your arms and legs and creep a little; 
and you are going to be able to say ' ' mama ' ' and 
"papa" just like other little boys.' In three 
weeks that child was walking and talking." 

Long generations before the circulation of the 
blood was discovered by modern physicians, it 
was clearly taught in the Old Testament scrip- 
tures. "Flesh with the life thereof, which is in 
the blood thereof." Gen. 9:4. "Keep thy heart 
with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of 
life." Pr. 4:23. In these two texts, two great 
facts are declared; first, that the animal life is in 
the blood, and second, that the blood issues from 
the heart. 

What the heart is to the body, the subcon- 
scious realm is to the mind. 

The word translated "heart" in the Bible, many 
times means that portion of the mind in which 
affection has its seat; which is the subconscious 
realm. 

It is just as true that out of the subconscious 
realm of the mind are the issues of soul life, as 
that out of the physical heart are the issues of 
animal life. 



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More than that, the subconscious realm of the 
mind controls the physical heart action; causing 
it to pump the blood, which contains the animal 
life, into all parts of the body. As the strength 
of the body depends upon the proper working of 
the physical heart, so the strength of the mind 
depends upon the proper working of the subcon- 
scious realm; which is the heart of the mind. 

"A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy 
the rottenness of the bones." Pr. 14:30. 

"A merry heart (subconscious realm) doeth 
good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth 
the bones." Pr. 17:22. 

"Rottenness of the bones" and drying up of 
the bones, is caused by envy, worry, depression, 
"a broken spirit" and such like. 

The best possible way to guard against rheuma- 
tism and other such troubles, is to have ' ' a merry 
heart" and a sweet disposition, always. 

"He that will love life, and see good days, let 
him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that 
they speak no guile: let him eschew evil, and do 
good; let him seek peace, and ensue it." I Pet. 
3:10. 

"Wait on the Lord: and He shall strengthen 
thine heart." Ps. 27:14. This is true physically, 
mentally and spiritually. 

"As he thinketh in his heart (subconscious 
realm of the mind) so is he." Pr. 23:7. 

"Death and life are in the power of the tongue. ' ' 
Pr. 18:21. 



Chapter XII. 
SPIRITUAL HEALING. 

Spiritual healing is the overcoming of sickness, 
and the conditions which cause sickness, through 
the effectual working together of the minds of men 
and the mind of God. 

Spiritual healing enfolds all that is good in 
mental healing, but adds thereto all the marvel- 
lous results of prayer. 

Prayer is suggesting to God the Father, the 
subconscious realm of the mind of God, in the 
name of the Lord Jesus Christ, the conscious 
realm of the mind of God. 

Three Absolute Essentials to Prayer. 
1st. Prayer, to be effectual, must be in perfect 
harmony with the will of God. ' ' The will of 
God" is "in Christ Jesus. " I Th. 5:18. There- 
fore, prayer to he answered, must be in ac- 
cord with the teachings of Christ Jesus. 
2nd. Prayer, to be effectual, must be fervent; 
that is, the one offering the prayer must be in 
earnest. 



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3rd. Prayer, to be effectual, must be offered in 
faith. "Ask in faith, nothing wavering. He 
that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven 
with the wind and tossed. For let not that 
man think that he shall receive anything of 
the Lord. Jas. 1 :6, 7, 
The subconscious realm of the mind of God is 
suggestible; as is the subconscious realm of the 
mind of man. Just as the will of the conscious 
realm of the mind of man rejects and uproots un- 
welcome suggestions to the subconscious realm, 
so the will of the conscious realm of the mind of 
God rejects and uproots unwelcome suggestions 
to the subconscious realm of the mind of God. 
Therefore all suggestions, or prayers, which are 
made to God the Father, the subconscious realm 
of the mind of God, must be in perfect harmony 
with the will of God which is in Christ Jesus, the 
conscious realm of the mind of God; else they are 
rejected and uprooted by Christ Jesus. 

It is a psychological impossibility for any hu- 
man mind, which is not in perfect harmony with 
Christ Jesus, the conscious realm of the mind of 
God, to effectually pray, or suggest, to God the 
Father, the subconscious realm of the mind of 
God. 

Numberless believers in false religions, which 
utterly ignore Christ Jesus, pray to God the Fath- 
er and claim that their prayers are answered : but 
the fact nevertheless remains, that the will of God 
is in Christ Jesus, and through Christ Jesus only 
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"Let God be true, but every man a liar." Ro. 
3:4. 

It is indisputable that prayers, which believers 
in false systems of religion, who deliberately re- 
ject Christ Jesus, offer to their false conceptions 
of God, are many times apparently answered; but 
it is also indisputable that the true God, the Fath- 
er of our Lord Jesus Christ, does not answer such 
prayers. 

Let a believer in a false religion earnestly and 
unwaveringly suggest physical healing to his 
false conception of God. Although God does not 
answer his prayer, his earnest suggestions to a 
false deity become powerful autosuggestions to 
the subconscious realm of his own mind; and 
healing, through mentality, is the result. Not 
understanding psychology, the believer in the 
false religion gives the glory for his healing to his 
false conception of God. 

It is an absolute impossibility to establish con- 
tact with a human mind except through the func- 
tions of the conscious realm of that human mind. 
What use to speak to a man, if he cannot hear! 
"What use to signal a man, if he cannot see ! What 
use to touch a man, if he cannot feel? 

If the mind of a man were robbed of reason, 
judgment, will, sight, hearing, smell, taste and 
feeling (the functions of the conscious realm), it 
would be absolutely impossible to establish con- 
tact with that man's mind. In like manner it is 
impossible to establish contact with the mind of 
God, except through the functions of the conscious 



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realm of the mind of God. Therefore, since Christ 
Jesus is the conscious realm of the mind of God, 
and all the functions of the conscious realm are 
in Him, it is psychologically impossible for God 
to establish contact with man, or man with God, 
except through Christ Jesus. 

Even if it were possible (which I believe is not 
the case) for a human mind, by telepathy, to place 
a suggestion in the subconscious realm of the 
mind of God, without the use of the functions of 
the conscious realm, (which are in Christ Jesus) ; 
nevertheless, the acceptance or rejection of that 
suggestion would rest absolutely in the will of 
God, which is in Christ Jesus. 

This is what Christ Jesus meant when He de- 
clared, " I am the Way, the Truth and the Life : no 
man cometh unto the Father, but by Me." John 
14:6. "I am the Door: by Me if any man enter in, 
he shall be saved." John 10:9. 

Any man, or woman, or sect, or creed, that 
teaches that man can get into touch with God, and 
control the forces of God, in any other way, ex- 
cept through Christ Jesus, is teaching that which 
is scripturally false, and psychologically impos- 
sible. 

Prayers should be addressed to God the Father, 
the subconscious realm of the mind of God; but 
it is Christ Jesus, the conscious realm, who decides 
whether or not prayers shall be answered. 

Just as the conscious realm of the mind of man 
can reject or uproot any suggestion offered to the 
subconscious realm; so Christ Jesus, the conscious 



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realm of the mind of God, can reject or uproot any 
suggestion, or prayer, offered to the Father, the 
subconscious realm of the mind of' God : and just 
as the conscious realm of the mind of man can 
will to accept and respond to any suggestion of- 
fered to the subconscious realm; so Christ Jesus, 
the conscious realm of the mind of God, can will 
to accept and respond to any suggestion, or 
prayer, offered to the Father, the subconscious 
realm of the mind of God. 

This is what He meant when He said, "What- 
soever ye shall ask in My name, that will I do, 
that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If 
ye ask anything in My name, I will do it. If ye 
love Me, keep My commandments. And I will 
pray the Father. ' ' John 14 :13-16. 

Though prayer is directed to the Father, in the 
name of Christ Jesus, it is Christ Jesus, and not 
the. Father, who wills what the answer shall be. 
"That will I do." "I will do it." If prayer is 
in accord with the will of God, which is in Christ 
Jesus, then Christ Jesus autosuggests to the Fath- 
er, the subconscious realm of His own mind, in 
harmony with the prayer. "I will pray the 
Father." When Christ Jesus autosuggests in 
harmony with the prayer, or suggestion, of a be- 
liever, then the prayer is always answered. The 
subconscious realm of the mind of God always 
responds to the autosuggestions of Christ Jesus, 
the conscious realm. "Father I thank Thee that 
Thou hast heard Me. And I knew that Thou 
hearest Me always: but because of the people 



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which stand by I said it, that they may believe 
that Thou hast sent Me." John XI:41, 42. (Note, 
this prayer which preceded the raising of Lazarus, 
who had been dead four days, was audible. Christ 
Jesus distinctly states that He prayed audibly 
"because of the people which stand by, that they 
may believe.") 

It is always the will of God to destroy the works 
of the devil. 

' ' For this purpose was the Son of God manifest- 
ed, that He might destroy the works of the devil. ' ' 
I John 3:8. 

That sin, sickness and death are "the works of 
the devil" is clearly proven in the following 
texts : 

"That through death He (Christ Jesus) might 
destroy him that hath the power of death, that is, 
the devil" Heb. 2:14. 

"He that committeth sin is of the devil." I 
John 3:8. 

"So went Satan forth from the presence of the 
Lord, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole 
of his foot unto his crown." Job 2:7. 

Christ Jesus Himself speaks of "this woman 
whom Satan hath bound lo, these eighteen years ; ' ' 
(Luke 13:16), and He also warns us, "Fear him 
which is able to destroy both soul and body." Mat. 
10:28. 

Jesus of Nazareth— went about doing good, and 
"healing all that were oppressed of the devil." 
Ac. 10:38. 

That God, through Christ Jesus, is willing to 



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heal the sick and save all who trust in Him, is 
clearly proven in the following texts: 

"If ye harken-— the Lord shall take away from 
thee all sickness." Dent. 7:12, 15. 

''And these signs shall follow them that be- 
lieve; in My name they shall cast out devils; they 
shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall re- 
cover." Mk. 16:17, 18. 

"Beloved, I wish above all things that thou 
mayst prosper and be in health, even as thy soul 
prospereth." 3 John 2. 

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because 
He hath sent Me to heal." Lu. 4:18. 

"He healed all that were sick." Mat. 8:16. 

' ' I am come that they might have life, and that 
they might have it more abundantly. ' ' John 10 :10. 

"Is there any sick among you? let him call for 
the elders of the church; and let them pray over 
him, anointing him with oil in the name of the 
Lord : and the prayer of faith shall save the. sick, 
and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have 
committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. Con- 
fess your faults one to another, and pray for one 
another, that ye may be healed. The effectual 
fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. ' ' 
Jas. 5:14-16. 

"Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist 
the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh 
to God, and He will draw nigh to you. Cleanse 
your hands ye sinners; (let the deeds of the con- 
scious realm be clean) and purify your hearts 
(let the subconscious realm be purified by the 



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blood of Christ Jesus) ye double minded. Hum- 
ble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He 
shall lift you up." Jas. 4:7, 8, 10. 

"If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God, — 
and it shall be given him. But let him ask in 
faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth 
is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and 
tossed. For let not that man think that he shall 
receive anything of the Lord. A double minded 
man is unstable in all his ways." Jas. 1:5-8. 

Since God is so manifestly willing to heal the 
sick and "destroy the works of the devil," 

why are not all healed who pray for healing? 

The secrets of success and failure, are revealed 
in the texts just quoted, "The prayer of faith 
shall save the sick" and "let not that man think 
that he shall receive anything of the Lord." 

Faith is more than hope, or expectation, or con- 
fidence. To have faith, is to have a God given 
assurance. "By grace are ye saved through 
faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of 
God: not of works, lest any man should boast." 
Eph. 2:8, 9. 

There is both the man side and the God side to 
all genuine spiritual works. "Work out your 
own salvation with fear and trembling." (Man's 
side) "For it is God which worketh in you both 
to will and to do of His good pleasure." (God's 
side) Phil. 2:12, 13. 

The wording is not, work for your own salva- 
tion; but work out your own salvation. There is 
just as much difference between working for sal- 



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vation and working out salvation; as there is be- 
tween working for a farm, and working out a farm 
— that is making a farm produce everything that 
you can make it produce, after some one has made 
you a present of it. 

Salvation is the gift of God. "The gift of God 
is* eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." 
Eom. 6:23. 

Any man, by proper autosuggestions to the sub- 
conscious realm of his mind, can make himself 
believe that Jesus Christ was God manifest in the 
flesh, and by so believing bring himself into such 
relation to God that the Holy Spirit of God will 
pollenize, or fertilize, the superconscious realm of 
his mind, with the Word of God, which is the pol- 
len of God ; and so bring about the new birth or 
the impartation of the God life and nature, to the 
believer: but the believer cannot, by the mere pro- 
cesses of mentality,- through autosuggestions, de- 
velop faith. Faith is the gift of God; and it is 
imparted to the believer only after the believer, to 
the utmost of his ability, has met the conditions 
of the promises of God. 

It is to the regenerated believer that the in- 
spired apostle John writes, "If we confess our 
sins," (Man's side) "He is faithful and just to 
forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all un- 
righteousness. " (God's side) I John 1:9. And 
also, "If we walk in the light, as He is in the 
light," (man's side) "we have fellowship one 
with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His 



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Son cleansetli us from all sin." (God's side). 
I John 1:7. 

The word " sins' ' refers to the wrong acts of 
believers. These God forgives. The word "sin" 
refers to the race condition of " unrighteousness " 
through inherited tendencies to evil. God is will- 
ing to cleanse the believer from all ' ' sin " or " un- 
righteousness, ' ' thus freeing him from all inherit- 
ed tendencies to evil. 

"The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleansetli 
us from all sin. ' ' What else then is needed 1 If 
the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses ^from all sin, 
then there is no other possible means of cleans- 
ing. What a frightful fatal error it is for any 
one to claim to be cleansed from sin, who knows 
not the cleansing power of the blood of Jesus 
Christ! 

"True believers are "workers together with 
Him." 2 Cor. 6:1. 

God can manifest His power through believers 
only when they are in perfect harmony with Him. 
Just as an electric car, with its trolley off the 
wire, is without power and without light; so the 
believer, who is out of touch with God, is without 
power and without light. 

It would be useless for the conductor of an elec- 
tric car, with trolley off the wire, to pray for 
light and power. Prayer under such conditions 
would be utmost foolishness. The electricity be- 
ing carried by that overhead wire is capable of 
producing all the power and light necessary, the 
instant the trolley is again properly brought into 



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touch with the wire. In like manner, it is wasted 
energy and utmost foolishness for a believer, who 
is out of touch with God, to pray, until he has 
established contact with God, by confessing and 
forsaking his sins. 

When a believer is in touch with God; that is, 
in perfect harmony with the will of God, which is 
in Christ Jesus; the first thing he does when he 
prays is to submit himself unto God. 

It is a grand thing when a believer in the Lord 
Jesus Christ is willing to do only those things 
which are in harmony with the will of Jesus 
Christ; but it is a grander thing still when a be- 
liever submits himself unto God, and absolutely 
surrenders the control of his mind to God; thereby 
permitting God to work in him and through him 
mightily. 

The instructions which God has given us are 
not merely, "Besist the devil and he will flee from 
you;" but they are, "Submit yourselves therefore 
to God" and then "resist the devil and he will 
flee from you." Jas. 4:7. 

To merely "resist" or "deny" evil, without 
first submitting one's self unto God, is to oppose 
Satan and his legions of demons in the power of 
human mentality alone. 

Christ Jesus has given us one example of such 
mental resistance. He says, "When the unclean 
spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through 
dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then 
he saith, I will return unto my house from whence 
I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it 



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empty, Swept and garnished. Then goeth he, and 
taketh with himself seven other spirits more 
wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell 
there : and the last state of that man is worse than 
the first." Mat. 12:43-45. 

That God had no part in the matter, is clear in 
the Saviour's nse of the word " empty." Had 
God, through Christ Jesus, cast the demon out, 
the Holy Spirit would have entered into the man; 
for it is written of every true believer in the Lord 
Jesus Christ, "Your body is the temple of the 
Holy Ghost." I Cor. 6:19. 

The man, by the power of mentality, cast out 
the demon, and brought about his own healing, 
or reformation; overcoming some uncleanness ; 
for Christ Jesus refers to the demon as an "un- 
clean" spirit. The demon, however, was one of 
a lesser sort; and he went in search of other spirits 
more wicked, and doubtless more powerful, than 
himself; and together they again took forcible 
possession of the man's body. 

Mental healing is limited to the power of human 
mentality; whereas spiritual healing has no limit 
but the will of God. 

•Mental healers "resist" or "deny" evil, by the 
power of mentality alone, without first submit- 
ting their minds to the control of the mind of God, 
through Christ Jesus; whereas spiritual healers 
submit their minds to the control of God, as the 
first essential to success; and then by permitting 
the Spirit of God to work in them and through 
them mightily, they become the instruments of 



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God in destroying the works of the devil. 

Mental healers are proud and boastful, like 
Simon the sorcerer, who gave out "that he him- 
self was some great one: to whom they all gave 
heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, this 
man is the great power of God." Ac. 8:9, 10. 

Spiritual healers are humble, always working 
for the glory of God, and the eternal salvation of 
the souls of men: realizing that the eternal re- 
demption of the soul of the patient, is of infinitely 
more importance than the mere healing of his 
body. 

Spiritual healers believe that the words, "Him- 
self took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses, ' ' 
(Mat. 8:17) just as certainly express the truth of 
God, as do the words, ' ' His own self bare our sins 
in His own body on the tree. ' ' I Pet. 2 :24. There- 
fore, since Christ Jesus atoned for sickness just 
as truly as He atoned for sin, all true believers in 
Christ Jesus have the same right to claim perfect 
salvation from sickness, as they have to claim 
perfect salvation from sin. It is because so many 
believers, amongst whom, unfortunately, are the 
majority of the ministers of the orthodox 
churches, fail to realize that sickness has been 
atoned for, that so many of God's own suffer and 
die. The apostle Paul most emphatically stated, 
' 1 For this cause many are weak and sickly among 
you, and many sleep (or die)." I Cor. XI:30. 

For what cause? Bead the preceding verse, 
"Not discerning the Lord's body." 

This means, that because believers fail to rec- 



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ognize the fact that the body of Jesus Christ was 
broken to atone for their bodies, just as truly as 
His blood was shed to atone for their souls; and 

fail to claim by faith the redemption from sick- 
ness which is theirs by right of His atonement; 
' i many are weak and sickly and die. ' ' The words, 
"He that eateth and drinketh unworthily," have 
no reference whatever to the man who has not 
been baptized, or to the man who has committed 
any particular sin; but they do refer to the be- 
liever who fails to discern the great fact that the 
Lord's body was broken to atone for his body. 

[I have heard many sermons preached from the 
words, "He that eateth and drinketh unworthily, 
eateth and drinketh damnation to himself," and 
from the words, ' ' now we command you, brethren, 
in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye 
withdraw yourselves from every brother that 
walketh disorderly," (2 Th. 3:6) when the 
preachers, (many of whom were doctors of divin- 
ity, who should have known better) twisted and 
distorted these texts, making them refer to bap- 
tism; and proving ( 1) by them that believers who 
had not been baptized should be excluded from 
the communion table. 

As has already been shown, the words, ' ' He 
that eateth and drinketh unworthily, ' ' have refer- 
ence only to the believer who fails to recognize 
the fact that the body of Jesus Christ was broken 
to atone for his body just as certainly as His blood 
was shed to atone for his soul. 

Therefore, the preacher who misapplies and 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 187 

misunderstands this text, is himself eating and 
drinking unworthily. 

The words, "Now we command you, brethren, 
in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye 
withdraw yourselves from every brother that 
walketh disorderly," have no reference whatever 
to baptism or communion. The apostle distinctly 
states in the eleventh verse of the same chapter (2 
Th. 3:11), exactly what his meaning is; "For we 
hear that there are some which walk among you 
disorderly, working not at all, but are busybod- 
ies." What have the words, "Working not at 
all, but are busybodies, " got to do with baptism 
or communion?] 

To attain unto the realization of perfect healing 
for both body and soul, the believer must submit 
his mind to the control of the mind of God; and 
then by faith claim perfect deliverance from sick- 
ness and sin, through the merit of the atonement 
of Christ Jesus. 

Eemember always the 
Three Absolute Essentials to Effectual Prayer: 
1st. Consecration. 

"The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous 
man availeth much." Jas. 5:16. A righteous 
man is a man who is right in his relations 
with God and with his fellow men. ' l Submit 
yourselves therefore to God." Jas. 4:7. "Pre- 
sent your bodies a living sacrifice." Eom. 
12:1. 
2nd. Concentration. 

"Let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For 



188 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

he* that wavereth is like a wave of the sea 
driven with the wind and tossed. Let not 
that man think that he shall receive anything 
of the Lord." Jas. 1:6, 7. 

3rd. Faith. 

'-'All things, whatsoever ye shall ask in 
prayer, believing, ye shall receive." Mat. 21: 
22. "What things soever ye desire, when ye 
pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye 
shall have them." Mk. 11:24. 

DEMONSTRATIONS OF THESE TRUTHS. 
Consecration. 

While conducting a series of evangelistic ser- 
vices in the Baptist church, in the town of W , 

Minn., J became greatly bnrdened for the salva- 
tion of a family of four; consisting of the father, 
mother, son of about twenty and daughter of about 
eighteen years of age. They were deeply con- 
victed of sin and very close to the Kingdom of 
God. I prayed for them earnestly and definitely, 
but even in the last meeting they refused to sur- 
render to God. I had, to the best of my ability, 
surrendered my mind to the control of the mind of 
God, and I could not understand the failure. 

One month later I accepted au invitation to 
conduct a series of evangelistic services many 

hundreds of miles north of the town of W , 

in the Methodist church of P , A , Sask., 

Canada. 

On my arrival the pastor met me at the depot 



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189 



and we started to walk to his home. We had not 
gone very far, however, when my gaze rested npon 
an insignificant honse some hundreds of yards dis- 
tant, on the other side of an open field. Instantly 
an overwhelming impulse came upon me to go at 
once to that house. Not understanding the im- 
pulse I asked, "Who lives in that house?" "I 
don't know," was the reply. We walked silently 
for a few moments and then I said, "I've got to 
go to that house." The minister looked at me 
and laughingly commented, "You're a funny fel- 
low. What do you want to go there for?" "I 
don't know," I replied, "but for some reason or 
other God wants me to go to that house." 

"All right, then, I'll go with you," said he, and 
we immediately cut across the open field. When 
I knocked, the door was opened by the mother of 
the family of four, whom I had left under such 
deep conviction of sin one month before in the 
town of W ', Minn. 

"Why, Mr. McCrossan!" she exclaimed, and 
burst into tears. 
- "You want to be saved, don't you?" I asked. 

"Yes." 

"Then let us kneel right down here and settle 
it." 

While we were praying, the other members of 
the family entered the room, and one after anoth- 
er knelt by the mother's side and surrendered 
themselves to Grod. The following morning, Sun- 
day, they all united with the Methodist church on 
profession of faith. 



190 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

Concentration. 

While conducting a series of evangelistic ser- 
vices in the town of W , South Dakota, in 

which the Congregationalisms, Methodists and 
Baptists were united, a great burden came upon 
me for the conversion of three young men. One 
morning as I was praying for them, I received the 
positive assurance that they would all be saved 
that night. So confident was I, that I told the 
Congregational pastor, as we were walking to the 
evening service. 

To my surprise not one of the three was in at- 
tendance at the meeting. When the service was 
over, and all the others were gone, the Congrega- 
tional pastor jo shingly remarked,- "I'm afraid 
you didn 't have the right hunch, Mc. ' ' His levity 
ceased instantly when he realized that it was a 
matter of vital importance with me, for I replied, 
"If I am mistaken, and God did not speak to me 
and tell me that those three men were to be saved 
tonight, then I'll confess that I don't know what 
it is to be led by Grod." 

"What are you going to do?" he asked. 

' ' Eemain here all night, if necessary, ' ' I replied ; 
then added, "Do you really believe the promises 
of Jesus Christ 1 ' ' 

"I certainly do," he answered with a smile. 

"Then let us claim that one, 'If two of you 
shall agree.' " 

We knelt and continued in prayer until eleven 
o'clock; when . suddenly the door of the church 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 191 

was thrown open, and one of the young men ran 
up the aisle and threw himself upon his knees 
beside us, saying simply, "I want to be saved." 

Twenty minutes later the second one came ; and 
just as the clock was striking twelve, the third 
one came running up the street, and as soon as 
he entered the church he cried out, "Thank God 
there's somebody here! pray for me, I want to be 
saved." 

The following evening all three gave public 
testimony to the saving power of Jesus Christ. 

We learned from them afterward that being 
deeply convicted of sin, each had stayed away 
from the service because he feared he would be 
forced to yield to God if he attended. Two of 
them had roamed the streets, though separately; 
whilst the third had retired to his bed; but they 
were nevertheless drawn to the church by the 
Spirit of God, in answer to concentrated prayers 
of faith. 

Faith. 

While conducting a series of evangelistic meet- 
ings in M , Wis., in which the Methodists, 

Presbyterians and Baptists were united, I was one 
night led to put God to a public test. The mem- 
bers of the churches were lukewarm, lacking both 
in faith and works, and many unbelievers openly 
sneered at the idea of God answering prayer. 

One night at the close of a meeting, in which 
there seemed to be no power, I asked all the pro- 
fessing christians who would promise to spend 



192 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

one hour alone with God in prayer, for the salva- 
tion of soxxls the next night, to rise. About ten 
responded. Then I asked how xxxany would prom- 
ise to spend, half an hour, twenty minutes, fifteen 
minutes, ten minutes, or even five minutes, alone 
with God in prayer, for the salvation of souls the 
next night. Some fifty or sixty, in all, responded. 

Then I said to the unbelievers, "Many of you 
have told me that you cannot believe that God 
answers prayer. These christian people, your 
neighbors, and myself, are going to definitely 
claim the fulfillment of the promises of God be- 
tween this moment and tomorx^ow evening's ser- 
vice. I invite you all to be present tomorrow 
night, to see God answer prayer." 

Whexx the meeting had been dismissed, several 
men, amongst whom was at least one preacher, 
called me to task for making such a statement. 
I went at once to my room and prayed earnestly, 
with tears, and plead with God to not fail me, even 
though I might have done wrong in making such 
a pxxblic test. 

When I awoke next morning, I was aching in 
every joint. An epidemic of La Grippe was rag- 
ing in the town, and I had it ; or rather, it had me. 
All day long I suffered in spite of many prayers. 
When the hour of service drew near, I attempted 
to rise, but foxxnd it almost impossible to stand 
upon my feet. Two young men helped me dress, 
and alxxxost carried me into the pulpit. When the 
time came to begin my sermon, I stood upon my 
feet, determined that I would go through with the 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 193 

service; but the next instant would have fallen, 
had not one of the pastors caught me. Every- 
thing seemed to be in a whirl and darkness came 
upon me. I gripped the pulpit, and while the 
pastor still held me, I began to pray audibly. Just 
what I said I do not know, except that I reminded 
God that I, His minister, who believed in and 
trusted Him, had the night before publicly chal- 
lenged the unbelievers* of that town to come to 
that meeting, to see Him answer prayer ; and then, 
letting go the pulpit, and lifting both my hands 
to God, I cried, "My God, I can't preach unless 
you heal me. ' ' 

With the suddenness of an electric shock, I felt 
the dizziness and pain leave my body; and the 
glory and ecstacy of the Lord, filled and flooded 
my soul. I shouted, ' ' Glory to God, He has healed 
me." 

I preached one hour and ten minutes that night ; 
which was at least twenty minutes longer than I 
had ever preached before. At the close of the 
sermon, instead of calling for a tender invitation 
hymn, as was my usual method of procedure, I 
silently bowed in prayer and asked, ' ' My Father, 
what shall I do now!" 

As clearly as I ever heard a human voice, I 
heard the words, "Ten women in this house will 
be saved tonight." Without doubt or hesitation, 
I joyously cried out, "God tells me there are ten 
women in this house who will be saved tonight." 
The next moment Satan whispered, "You fool, 
now you've done it. Why didn't you find out 



194 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

first whether ten women would come before you 
said anything about it? Now you've made a 
laughing stock of the whole business." 

I realized it was the devil and I muttered, ' ' Get 
thee behind me, Satan." 

I asked all the women in the house who were 
christians to rise; and then requested all the un- 
saved women who wanted to be saved, to rise 
with them. One after another they responded 
until ten unsaved women had risen. ' ' Now, ' ' said 
I, "If you mean it from the depths of your souls, 
come and kneel at the altar and let us lead you to 
God." They came, and it was not more than fif- 
teen or twenty minutes until they had all given 
happy testimonies to the saving power of Jesus 
Christ. 

When they had returned to their seats, I again 
silently bowed in prayer and asked, "My Father, 
what shall I do now ? ' ' 

Again, as clearly as I have ever heard a human 
voice, I heard the words, ' ' Ten men in this house 
will be saved tonight." But I doubted; even 
though God had just proven Himself so wonder- 
fully. The former suggestions of Satan still lin- 
gered in my memory, and had their effect. I rea- 
soned with myself, "Why not go cautiously? If 
I were to say that ten men will be saved, and then 
for any reason they were not, I'd do a great deal 
of harm. I need not tell the people that God has 
told me that ten men will be saved; until they 
have been saved, and then I '11 tell them. I '11 



the: mind SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 195 

make the test first.'' This I proceeded to do; but 
God made me suffer for it. 

I asked all the men in the house who were chris- 
tians, to rise; and then requested all the unsaved 
men who wanted to be saved to rise with them. 
One, two, three, six, eight, unsaved men rose, but 
not ten. I then asked the eight, if they were in 
earnest, to come to the altar; and they did so. 
All my efforts to persuade the other two, were in 
vain. Then I tried to pray, but suddenly God 
seemed very far away. I could stand it no longer, 
and with tears streaming down my cheeks I told 
the people what God had said, and how I had 
doubted Him. I left the platform, and starting 
at the front row on the left I went slowly to the 
back of the church, eagerly scanning the face of 
each man, as I cried in agony of soul to God, "Is 
that one of them, God?" I felt that if those 
two souls were lost, I would be for ever to blame. 
I then searched all the faces of the men in the 
middle section of the church, but no impulse came 
to me to go to any man. Slowly I came forward 
from the rear of the church, gazing eagerly into 
the face of each man in the right hand section, 
until finally I reached the front pew. Suddenly 
I felt strangely drawn toward an elderly gentle- 
man seated there, and going to his side I said, 
"God wants to save you, will you come?" He 
replied in a very low tone of voice, "I will if my 
son will. ' ' The most natural thing for me to have 
done, would have been to inquire if his son was 
present; but I did not do so. Instead I turned 



196 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

toward the few seats at the right of the pulpit, 
commonly called "the amen corner," and my gaze 
rested npon the face of a young man, sitting on 
the back seat there. Instantly I felt irresistibly 
drawn toward him. I laid my hand upon his 
shoulder and said, "Young man, God is calling 
you; will you come?" 

"I will if my father will," he answered. 

i ' Who is your father VI asked. 

"The gentleman to whom you just spoke," he 
replied. 

"Praise God!" I shouted; "your father just 
told me he would come if his son would, so come 
along, both of you." 

They did so. All ten were happily saved and 
gave public testimony to the fact before the meet- 
ing closed. 

DEMONSTBATIONS OF HEALING. 

Early one morning, in the town of M ? Mani- 
toba, Canada, I awoke with a strong impression 
that God had some particular work for me to do 
that day; something apart from the regular evan- 
gelistic work in which I was engaged. 

After dressing, I knelt beside the bed and, as 
my custom was, submitted my mind to the control 
of the mind of God, just as a man about to be hyp- 
notized, surrenders his mind to the control of the 
hypnotist. 

I felt no distinct leading until about ten o 'clock 
that morning, when the impulse came upon me to 
go for a walk into the country. I walked about 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 197 

four miles and then as I was passing the entrance 
to a small farm house, I was constrained to ap- 
proach the door and knock. A few moments later 
the door was thrown open by a little woman who 
was crying as though her heart would break. 

"What is the matter?" I asked. 

" 0, " she cried, ' ' my baby is dying, and my hus- 
band is away; and I haven't anyone to send for 
a doctor." 

I went in where the child was and took it in 
my arms. As I held it, I looked up to my heavenly 
Father, and prayed audibly thus: "Thou Father 
of the Lord Jesus Christ, I lay my hands upon this 
child in His name, claiming the fulfillment of His 
promise, 'These signs shall follow them that be- 
lieve; they shall lay hands on the sick and they 
shall recover.' " 

The next instant the child began to choke, and 
I turned it upon its stomach, and held its little 
face over a basin. Great chunks of phlegm came 
from it. I continued to hold the child for a few 
minute s, during which I silently prayed, and then 
receiving the assurance that the child was healed, 
I laid it upon the bed. Within five minutes the 
little one was playing as though it had never 
known sickness. The mother tried to thank me, 
but I interrupted her with the question, "Have 
you ever been born again?" 

She replied in the negative. 

"Surely you'd like to be saved, wouldn't you?" 
I asked. 

"Yes." 



198 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

"Then let us kneel right down here and settle 
it, " I suggested, kneeling as I spoke. 

She knelt also, and I taught her how to take 
God at His Word. A few minutes later she rose 
to her feet happily trusting in Christ Jesus. 

As I was about to leave, her husband returned 
and insisted upon my remaining to lunch. She 
told him about the healing of the child and of her 
own acceptance of the Saviour. I then urged him 
to immediately accept salvation through Christ 
Jesus, and he did. 

Thus the healing of the child became the means, 
in God's plan, of the regeneration of both the 
father and the mother. 



In the city of D , Minn., the Eev. Dr. M , 

a Presbyterian minister, was very ill as the result 
of a complete nervous break down. Sleep deserted 
him, in spite of the narcotics given by the phy- 
sician. 

" When I entered his room I found another Pres- 
byterian minister present. 

The Eev. Dr. M— — was one of my dearest 
friends, and it grieved me greatly to see how his 
strength had failed. When I approached his bed- 
side he reached out his hand and as I clasped it he 
said, "Charlie, won't you ask God to give me a 
little sleep?" 

The visiting pastor prayed first; and then I 
laid my hands upon my sick friend's forehead, 
and audibly claimed the fulfillment of the promise 
of Christ Jesus, "These signs shall follow them 



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199 



that believe; they shall lay hands oh the sick and 
they shall recover." 

When I withdrew my hands my friend was 
sound asleep. He slept for abont eight "hours; 
and from that night began to mend. 



At the close of a service one evening, in the 

Baptist church of L C , Minn., a gentleman 

earnestly requested the pastor and myself to go 
with him some miles into the country, to pray with 
his dying wife. 

He informed us that she was bleeding to death 
as the result of a hemorrhage, and the doctor had 
said she could not possibly live throughout the 
night. 

We accompanied him. When we entered the 
room where the dying woman lay, I laid my hand 
upon her forehead as I asked, "Do you know 
Jesus Christ as a personal Saviour. 

"Yes, sir," she replied. 

"Then," said I, "trust God with us, while we 
pray." 

At the special request of the husband I poured 
a few drops of oil upon the woman's brow, anoint- 
ing her with oil "in the name of the Lord," and 
then laying my hands upon the sides of her fore- 
head I audibly claimed the fulfillment of the prom- 
ise of Christ Jesus, "These signs shall follow 
them that believe; they shall lay hands on the 
sick and they shall recover." 

As I prayed she fell asleep, and did not awaken 
until seven o'clock the following morning. The 



200 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

doctor called soon after and found that the hemor- 
rhage had ceased. He openly declared his amaze- 
ment. The woman continued to gain in health 
and strength for about three days, when, because 
something was not cooked to suit her, she got very 
angry; and in spite of all protests insisted upon 
going barefooted in her night gown to the kitchen, 
stubbornly declaring that she would cook the dish 
herself. 

It was bitterly cold winter weather, and the 
exposure and effort, coupled with anger, killed 
her. 

I certainly believe it was the will of God that 
she should have been perfectly healed; but anger 
killed her. 



At the close of a meeting one night in the Pres- 
byterian church of P E , North Dakota, 

a gentleman asked me to go and talk with his dy- 
ing wife. He said that the doctors had told him 
she could not live through the night. She was the 
victim of erysipelas. 

When I entered the room I found ten or twelve 
neighbor women; all of whom were crying. They 
had all, including the sick one, been informed by 
one of the doctors, of the approaching death. 

I quietly, but firmly, sent them all out of the 
room, with the exception of one young woman, 
whom I knew to be a particular friend of the sick 
one. 

I then went to the bedside and looked down 



THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 201 

upon Mrs. M's face. It was the most awful look- 
ing human face I have ever seen. It seemed to be 
one solid scab. 

I laid my hand gently on her forehead and asked 
if she could understand what I was saying. She 
replied in the affirmative. 

"Mrs. M ," said I, "do you believe it is the 

will of God that you should die?" 

"No," came the faint reply; then after a mo- 
ment the faltering words, "my children." 

"I don't believe it is either," I said emphati- 
cally, "and I'm going to pray for your healing. 
Trust God with me, won't you?" 

"I'll try," she answered. 

I knelt beside her bed and tenderly laid my 
hands upon the sides of her forehead, as I replied, 
"Dear sister, there isn't any trying in trusting. 
Trust is just as simple as a heart throb. Your 
little one does not have to try to trust you: no 
more do you have to try to trust God. Just rest 
on His promises." 

Then I prayed audibly, using about these words, 
"Thou Father of our Lord and Saviour Jesus 
Christ, in this moment of extremity I come to 
Thee, claiming the fulfillment of the promise of 
the Saviour, when He said, 'These signs shall fol- 
low them that believe; they shall lay hands on 
the sick and they shall recover.' I lay my hands 
upon this woman in the name of the Lord Jesus 
Christ; and I do believe. Thou canst not refuse 
to hear and answer my prayer, God, for behind 
this promise is the honor of Thy Son." 



BEG 9 1913 



202 THE MIND SCIENCE OF CHRIST JESUS 

I rose to my feet and looked down into Mrs. 
M's face, and to my great joy saw that her eyes 
were open. 

"Praise God, He is answering already," I cried. 

"Yes," she responded, "for not a ray of light 
has entered my eyes before in three days. I feel 
the thrill of health going through every part of 
my body." 

She was perfectly healed. 



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